César Príncipe

The winery carries the name of the father of the man who built it. Eutiquio, the grandfather, passed all his winemaking knowledge to his son César Príncipe; and it was César's son, Ignacio, who laid the foundations of the winery as it is known today, in 1982, and gave it his father's name.

The house stands in the highest part of Fuensaldaña. In the nineties they made the jump from selling the classic clarete in bulk to bottling it, and the turning point came in 2000 with the wine that bears the house's name: it scored 94 Parker points in its first vintage and put the reds of Cigales on the map, in an appellation known until then for its clarete.

The wine is 100% Tempranillo from vineyards between seventy and a hundred years old, on gently sloping plots. The soil is clay and sand at depth, with abundant rolled pebbles on the surface, and ageing runs fourteen months in oak barrels.