PAGO LOS BALANCINES

Pago de los Balancines was born in 2006 as a result of Pedro Mercado's viticultural vocation, a professional from Madrid who had been traveling the Spanish vineyard for some years now Hope to find the territory in which to start your own winery adventure. After traveling for the most remarkable regions, finally the fortune guides you to a secluded estate in Oliva from Mérida (Badajoz), a small town just over eighty kilometers east of the Pacense capital, in which he identified a very unique vineyard: the fresh winds sailors from neighboring Portugal seemed to arrive "enigmatic", cooling the vineyard permanent, and the old Tempranillo planted on the farm seemed to have a similar origin Luso that corresponded with Tinta Roriz, a qualitative clone of Castilian with enormous specific weight in Oporto wines. Coinciding with the 2015 vintage was inaugurated a small and beautiful winery (the construction plans were delayed because it was a bird protection area) whose exterior design seeks the most perfect integration in the landscape and the interior simply facilitate the oenological work: no fuss, only the willingness to elaborate the best possible wine from ecological practices that make the respect (to the territory, to the varieties and to a viticulture and an enology with a high component of tradition) the foundations of its progress.