Finca Montepedroso

Familia Martínez Bujanda's passion for wine took hold in the second half of the last decade in the Denomination of Origin Rueda (Valladolid, Castilla y León), an emerging Spanish wine-growing area specialised in the production of quality whites with the personality of a native grape variety, the Verdejo.

Although the Verdejo grape had already been authorised as a new variety in both La Rioja and La Mancha, Familia Martínez Bujanda was aware that the identity of a good wine requires, in addition to a soil and a characteristic microclimate, a tradition in cultivation and winemaking that cannot be abstracted from its authentic origins.

The Vineyard

Finca Montepedroso has an area of 25 hectares dedicated to the monoculture of Verdejo, with a plantation age ranging from 7 to 31 years.

Located on a plateau at an altitude of 750 meters, the estate has three types of soils characteristic of a region located in the central sector of the depression formed by the Douro River: the alluvial soil (boulders) that crowns the plateau and represents the largest area of the estate (70%); a clay soil in a ravine, with a slope of 10% where the oldest vineyards are planted (31 years old); and a soil with a large amount of silt and clay sediments, also in a ravine and with slopes of up to 20%.