Each new vintage is like opening a blank notebook. I welcome 2023 with special excitement: it has been a year of nuances, with a mild spring and a dry but balanced summer that allowed the grapes to ripen calmly, without rush, almost to the rhythm of their own pulse.
For me, 2023 also marks a personal milestone: it is the first year of winemaking from the plot I acquired in Labastida, planted in 1950. It is a place with a unique soul, which I wanted to name after my children, Vera and Javier: Veravier. Every cluster born there feels like a legacy that one day they too will be able to claim as their own.
The wines we present now hold something that moves me: vibrant freshness, polished tannins, an honest expression of what they are. Among them, La Bendecida and Buradón reveal a surprising floral delicacy, sustained on a mineral backbone that reminds me, with every sip, of the soil from which they come.
This year I experienced as an exercise in listening. I did not want to impose anything, but rather to accompany. And the truth is, the wines spoke for themselves.
