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Bien de Altura Tidao Tinto 2022
Born in 1986, Carmelo launched Bien de Altura at the age of 30 with a clear goal: to revive Gran Canaria’s wine growing potential and recover the large number of old vineyards that are being abandoned despite the paradoxical chronic shortage of grapes on the island, which currently has some 200 hectares under vine and just over 100 producers, most of them for self-consumption.
Despite his youth and no family tradition, Pea has solid experience in the world of wine. He studied chemical engineering, but since his dream was to have his own restaurant, he decided to combine his degree with catering and sommelier courses. Having acquired a taste for wine, Pea enrolled in oenology at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, where he met Luis Pedro Cndido da Silva (now winemaker at Niepoort and member of the family that owns Quinta da Carolina), who convinced him to go there for the harvest. He liked the experience with Dirk Niepoort so much that he ended up staying at the Douro for two years. After some time in Bierzo working with Ral Prez, he returned to Gran Canaria where he met organic producer Cristina Milln, owner of Bodega San Juan in Santa Brgida, where he consults and makes his own wines.
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