Alfredo Maestro, Lovamor, Castilla y Leon, Spain

Who - Alfredo Maestro

Where - Ribera del Duero, Castilla y Leon, Spain

What - Orange wine - Albillo.
How - Organic. Vegan. Lovamor is from a vineyard planted on limestone soils at 700-1000m asl over 100 years ago. 100% Albillo grape, spontaneous fermentation, with seven days on the skins, naturally clarified over the winter, bottles without fining, filtration or added sulphites.

Alfredo Maestro is an entirely self taught winemaker, dancing to his own tune rather than conforming to the restrictions of the Ribera del Duero DO rules. With a degree in economics, his first foray into wine growing was planting a small vineyard behind his father’s house in Peñafiel with no intention of selling the wines, just sharing them with friends and family. But then, by chance, he was offered a vineyard by a farmer who could no longer manage it and although as Alfredo says “it was completely intoxicated from the herbicides and other things that it had been fed” he put the knowledge of biodynamic and organic farming he had gained into practice and slowly but surely rescued the vineyard. At the same time he started working more naturally in the winery, reacting against the “technological” winemaking everyone was being taught. Twenty years later, Alfredo makes wines from vineyards across the region of Castilla y Leon, including Ribera del Duero and Sierra de Gredos, using many different grape varieties. But always with the same aim in mind - to produce wines that truly express the unique character of each vineyard