Alejandro Fernandez produce again this legendary wine in the 2003 vintage.
The moment we were greeted by many wine lovers, and that all consumers who were lucky enough to try some of the previous vintages of the Alejandro Fernandez's star wine has arrived. The Roman god who christened this wine, again present in the market. It is "Janus 2003", a wine to which the best professionals have described as unforgettable and memorable.
This wine is unlike any other. Complex, balanced, round, intense, full of nuances, such as cashmere pure velvet on the body. A wine to honor the god Janus, which took its name, looks to past and future, combining to perfection old and new techniques, elegantly expressing the best of them all. A wine that is produced only in very special crops.
Janus history dates back to 1982 when Alejandro Fernandez decided to introduce new technology in its warehouse. The technique was to replace the system used until then stomping grapes in the old Roman wine press. Still, the winemaker wanted to make sure that the new method would not affect the quality of its wine, so it developed half of their crop following the traditional and the other half using the new facilities. Finally, he became convinced of the latter.
Thus was born the first "Janus 1982". A wine named after the god of two faces, one looking to the past (the old wine press) and another that looks at the future (new plants).
What the critics say...
Peñin Guide: 93 points(01/01/2011)
Ruby color, border tile. Aroma elegant woodwork, spirits, fine cocoa, candied fruit. Palate: spicy, fine tannins, long, powerful and meaty.
Following on from the family tradition learnt from is father, Alejandro would make wine each year from the grapes of his small vineyards. However, he had to wait until 1972 to have his own real winery. It had a small 16th century winepress where almost the whole process was conducted. Ten years... would pass before the Tinto Pesquera winery would look more or less the same as it does today. The ancient winepress, however, still survives to this day.
More than a working philosophy, the four wineries that form the wine heritage of Alejandro Fernández –the Pesquera Corporation– share the same story of love for the viniculture that time helped to perfect. The bonds with its home land are clearly expressed in the symbol of the group: the image of the Arch and the Tower of Pesquera de Duero, typical of its flagships, the “Tinto Pesquera’.
Through thirty years of history, always under the baton of Alejandro Fernández, the Group has achieved the status of an international reference, a model of know-how to be followed in all wine regions all over the world.
Following the natural evolution, the wineries multiplied, and in the same way multiplied the challenges for the Group, making an art of the process of turning the ‘Tempranillo’ into original wines, with their own style and character.
The company, born in 1975 in Pesquera de Duero –which, on that time, was no more than just another village in Castilla ‘La Vieja’– has become nowadays a synonym of high quality wines all over the world, after the complete path of success laid by of all the wines made by the Group.
To the first winery –Pesquera, in the riverside of the Duero– another three have joined in. ‘Condado de Haza’, in Roa (Burgos), with an impressive set of plain, sober, Castilla buildings, surrounded by vineyards planted by Alejandro Fernández himself, adjusting the French ‘château’ style to the lands of the Spanish ‘Meseta Norte’.
For the winery in ‘La Mancha’ (in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real), it was chosen the name of the ancient winery that Alejandro’s parents used to own: ‘El Vínculo’ (‘The Bond’), meaning, at the same time, a tribute and the next step of the wine tradition of the Fernández.
‘Dehesa La Granja’, the fourth winery, is a dream come true to anyone who loves the countryside. It used to be a cattle farm –with 3000 square meters of wine cellars dug in the rock during the 18th century– and has 200 hectares of the Tempranillo that Alejandro Fernández uses to create some of his most personal wines.
Group of wineries Alejandro Fernández-Tinto Pesquera: a Family of Wines, the Wines of a Family.
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