People

Dommenech Niella Pitarch

Born in Horta de Sant Joan, into a livestock and farming family. He has always had the desire to carry on this family business. When he turned 29, he decided to dedicate himself to this way of life, whether out of inheritance or out of love for this world.
In Horta de Sant Joan he owns a small vineyard of white Grenache and Macabeu planted in 1996, covering 1.2 hectares and certified organic by the CCPAE. In addition, he is recovering a plot of old-vine red Grenache in Arenys de Lledó.
Alongside the vineyards, he raises organic kid goats of the Rasquera white goat breed, the only native goat breed in Catalonia and one that is endangered. Natural and sustainable grazing: the goats and kids graze freely, helping to manage the land and surrounding forests.

Joaquim Ricomà Alió

Agricultural technical engineer by training and viticulturist by vocation.
For the past 10 years, he has been working a vineyard estate in l’Argilaga, located between the Gaià and the Francolí rivers, in a region where the Mediterranean mosaic of vineyards, olive groves, and carob trees is threatened by industrial viticulture with little added value.

He works the land with an ecoLOGICAL vision, and his work is certified.

His vineyards are close to the sea; it is white-wine territory. He grows Macabeo and Cartoixà (Xarel·lo) and is gradually returning to varieties better adapted to the area: Muscat, White Grenache, and Cartoixà de Marina.

He applies regenerative agriculture techniques, but without rigid frameworks, carefully observing the vine’s cycle and striving to make the most of the best fruit, always seeking synergies with nature and aiming to create the least possible impact.

Jose Mª Bolufer

In the year 2000, together with his wife and children, he launched the project at the Les Basses de Teulada Agricultural Estate. It is a family project focused on recovering the vineyards of their ancestors in the towns of Teulada, Benitatxell, and Xaló, in the Marina Alta region of Alicante.
The vineyards are planted with traditional local varieties: moscatell del terreny, moscatell gos, gironet, tintorera, and trapadell. New plantings are always carried out using local varieties, such as plantafina (currently being introduced), grown organically and certified by the CAECV.

Regino Ballester

“I was born on March 4, 1956. All of my ancestors—grandparents and parents—were devoted to agriculture and viticulture, mainly producing their harvests in the family wineries. My entire life has revolved around Monastrell vineyards and their wine, which I made together with my father for family consumption, storing the surplus from exceptional harvests in centuries-old Fondillón casks. In 2017, I promoted the restoration of one of the family wineries, which is now part of the Alicante Denomination of Origin, ‘El Pinaret’. This work is dedicated to my father, who passed away in 2011 and from whom I learned almost everything I know about Monastrell and the traditional production of Fondillón.”

Manuel Martínez Lledó

Apasionado de la viticultura, pero desde una lucha y defensa del territorio mucho más atrevida, siempre encarado a la defensa de la belleza natural de su entorno, una pequeña y gran parte de su corazón estará siempre ligado a la Algueña, en la Sierra de Algayón, de la que se siente un enamorado.

"La viticultura para mí, un compromiso con mis antepasados ??y con el territorio donde nací. No tengo referencias del pasado de mi familia que no fueron viticultores. El primer" emigrante "que se dedica 42 años a otra cosa soy yo mismo. Por eso he vuelto a los orígenes después del paréntesis, aunque siempre he estado, de una manera u otra".