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0.3 hectares of vines over one hundred years old located at 710 meters above sea level with slate soil. 100% Mencía.
Manual harvest. The grapes ferment in open containers for 24 days, with 50% of the grapes being whole. The grapes are gently crushed by foot, ensuring that a portion remains intact during fermentation, which proceeds spontaneously without adding yeast. Maceration takes place for 24 days, with the cap being slightly crushed daily with the hands without breaking it. After bleeding and pressing, the wine decants for 7 days. It is aged for 12 months in 500-liter French oak barrels, which have been reused several times.
Ficha del Vino: Pico Ferreira
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Ficha del Vino: Pico Ferreira
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Esta ficha proporciona información útil sobre el vino, incluyendo detalles clave como la procedencia, elaboración, características organolépticas y puntuaciones de críticos.
César Márquez Pérez represents the ninth generation of a family rooted in Valtuille de Abajo since 1752, the date of the earliest surviving property documents. His family founded Castro Ventosa in 1990, but César took his own path: he studied oenology in Requena, spent seven years learning with his uncle Raúl Pérez at La Vizcaína (Bierzo) and completed a harvest with the Michelini brothers in Valle de Uco before launching his own project in 2015 with just over 1,300 bottles across four single-parcel wines. In 2017 he also became technical director of Castro Ventosa, running both projects in parallel.
César Márquez's Bierzo is a collection of micro-parcels of old vines — 60 to 120 years old, some ungrafted centenarians — farmed organically and sourced from elderly growers who can no longer work alone. The dominant variety is Mencía, co-planted with Garnacha Tintorera and native white varieties. Each parcel has its own logic: El Rapolao is a north-northeast slope at 500 m in Valtuille on iron-rich clay; Sufreiral, in Toral de los Vados at 620 m, sits on limestone — exceptionally rare in the Bierzo — which gives it a minerality and texture unmatched in the appellation; Pico Ferreira, in Corullón at 710 m on steep slate and schist, is the most extreme parcel and the flagship wine. The whites — La Salvación and El Val — come from century-old Godello in Valtuille.
In the cellar, transparency of origin is the guiding principle: spontaneous fermentation, partial whole-bunch inclusion (up to 65% depending on parcel and vintage), long macerations of 35 to 60 days, twelve months in used 500-litre French barrels and gravity bottling with no heavy filtration. The result is wines of 12.5–13.5% alcohol — fresh, tense and built to age. Pico Ferreira 2024 earned 100 points from Guía Peñín — the first perfect score ever given to a Bierzo wine in that guide — and 96 from Wine Advocate; El Val 2023 reached 96 points in both publications. Tim Atkin MW named him Bierzo Winemaker of the Year 2025, and Decanter places him among Spain's ten best winemakers.