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You can’t appreciate the ultimate dining experience without premium produce carefully and masterfully obtained from vineyards. The finest estates around the world have been invited to participate and showcase fruits of their labour at the ten-day long gastronomic extravaganza that is the World Gourmet Summit 2014. 

Be ready to indulge with distinguished winemakers who gather in town to share their best wines and host dinners at various participating World Gourmet Summit 2014 establishments.


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Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodríguez


In 1994, Pablo Eguzkiza and Telmo Rodríguez, along with a third oenologist, created a Garnacha from old bush vineyards in Navarra. The wine was called Alma (soul). This is how  the  business  started,  originally  under  the  name  of  Compañía  de  Vinos  de  La Granja.

The  name  was  a  declaration  of  intent:  it  made  it  clear  that  the  company  would  be producing more wines in the future and contained a homage to La Granja, the famous glassworks, a centre of outstanding Spanish craftwork that has all but disappeared. Even though the wine was successful, the increase in grape prices during the 1990s and the lack of commitment from the local co-operatives, forced the company to leave the area and focus on other projects.

Rueda is the second area Telmo and Pablo went to explore, and it was here that the Basa project was born. Back then, they exported all of their wines. But with the creation of other  wines  such  as  Aran,  Molino  Real  and  Lanzaga,  the  need  for  a  single  umbrella brand arose. The company at this  stage belonged entirely to Pablo Eguzkiza and Telmo Rodriguez, who decided to call it “Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodriguez”, (the Telmo Rodriguez Wine Company) to take advantage of Telmo’s position in the wine world, as well as his pioneering work with Spanish viticulture.

From the start, the aim of the company has been to use native Spanish varieties. This philosophy  originally  differed  from  the  on-going  interest  in  the  planting  of  foreign varieties, pretty much in every Spanish vineyard region. Another noteworthy initiative, again from the earliest days of the business, is the recovery of abandoned or forgotten vineyards. This is how the projects in Malaga, with Molino Real, and in Cebreros , with Pegaso, emerged.

An  initial  lack  of  financial  resources  forced  the  company  to  focus  on  comparatively simple  and  rapidly  marketable  wines.  Wines  produced  in  Navarra,  Rueda,  Alicante, Toro, Aragón, Ribera del Duero, Rioja, Valedorras and Cigales allowed the partners to study  the  Tempranillo,  Tinto  fino,  Tinta  de  toro,  Garnacho,  Monastrell,  MencÍa,
Verdejo, Viura and Godello grape varieties in depth. The aim was to reflect a sense of place based most of all on good viticulture and outstanding growers.

Wines like Dehesa Gago, Basa, Gaba do Xil, Viña 105, Gago, Gazur, Almuvedre, LZ and MR emerged from this work. At Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodriguez, the owners are  adept  at  seeking  out  the  best  areas,  encouraging  the  leading  grape  growers  and developing partnerships with leading distributors in the main international markets. Compañia de Vinos Telmo Rodriguez has also developed a series of one-off projects for importers  or  special  customers,  such  as  Marks  &  Spencer  in  Great  Britain.  This  has brought brands like Pago Real, Pérez Burton and  Peña del Infierno to a wider audience, highlighting the progress that has been made in Spanish vineyards.




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Telmo Rodriguez is one of Spain’s pioneer winemakers, advocating native grape varietals tied to the climates and conditions of their sites, and making world-class wines from undiscovered  as well as known regions. Perhaps most impressive, while Telmo Rodriguez makes rare and limited wines of astonishing character and quality, his everyday wines have been equally praised, and widely recognized for the tremendous value they offer.

Telmo studied viticulture and oenology at the University of Bordeaux and was the winemaker at his family winery in Rioja, Remelluri, and then set off on his own in the early 1990s to discover new vineyards and regions all around Spain. He now makes a range of wines in diverse viticultural areas of Spain, with an emphasis on the following:

o    Telmo’s vineyards are biodynamically farmed
o    All vines are exclusively bush-trained, the traditional Spanish method
o    Sites with exceptional terroir
o    Varietals traditional to their regions
o    Replanting only with massal selections
    
Telmo was among the first to make significant wines in Toro, Rueda, Valdeorras, Malaga, Alicante and Cigales. In these areas he uses native varietals, often grapes rediscovered such as Godello, Verdejo, Moscatel and Monastrell which do not have wide recognition. With other classically recognized varietals such Tempranillo, Garnacha and Carignan, he works with vines that are indigenous and reflect the character of their particular site. As a result, Telmo has been one of the leaders of the quality revolution with these varietals in up and coming areas such as Toro, as well as in the traditional areas of Rioja and Ribera del Duero.


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