BODEGAS HISPANO SUIZAS

Three men, soul brothers, shared the same dream having spent half their lives in the world of wine: make wines they wanted to make, starting with vine through to the final label. Between the whims of a start up winery by someone new to the sector or a wine made to meet market trends there is a third way. Marc Grin, Pablo Ossorio and Rafael Navarro wanted to develop a very personal project and gave it the name Bodegas Hispano+Suizas after the origins of the partners

Independence and contrasting experience together with the three key elements for a good product: traditional viticulture, innovative winemaking, and experience in exporting, Rafael, Pablo and Marc have been free to create a small masterpiece.   Their aim was to make high quality wines, accessible to the growing number of lovers of good wine.  Slightly elitist yet not losing sight of that fact that to make a good wine requires daily care and attention from best way of pruning to the components of the final blend, having been very careful and patient during the vintage and knowing the right combination and use of oak barrels.   The objective is ambitious: to make masterpieces, distinctive yet accessible to the consumer.  From this idea the wines take their names all having something in common, expressions used in classical music.   A good wine, in order not be out of tune, has to come out of the bottle like a symphony in which each instrument has it place.  This is the dream of Bodegas Hispano+Suizas, which is now beginning to take shape.  

Bodegas Hispano+Suizas is in the ‘Denominación de Origen Utiel-Requena’, one of the viticultural areas in Spain with the greatest tradition, and it is here they decided to gamble by investing to produce their wines.This region, situated halfway between the ‘meseta’, the high plateau of central Spain, and the Mediterranean, has an ideal climatic combination to produce great quality graps with distinctive characteristics.  

Bodegas Hispano+Suizas have 86 hectares of their own vineyards.   The planted grape varieties are Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Bobal, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Syrah, Pinot Noir and Petit Verdot.   There are just 4000 vines planted per hectare which allows us to work in a very precise way  to achieve the best quality of grapes that one can see reflected in the wines of Bodegas Hispano+Suizas.   The production is between 6000 and 8,000kg per hectare, barely 2kg per vine.