Bodegas El Paraguas has received the most important award in its short but productive career. The Asociación Española de Periodistas y Escritores del Vino, part of FIJEV (Journalists and Writers of the Wine Internacional Federation) has reward the first white wine of this winery, El Paraguas Atlántico 2011, as Best Wine of Spain in the White Wines category. Bodegas El Paraguas Hill collect the prize next March 21th in Mallorca, during a gala dinner. Not only the creators of this wine, Marcial Pita and Felicísimo Pereira, will attend the event, but also many personalities of the wine world in Spain, as the president of AEPEV, María Isabel Mijares.
The project of Bodegas El Paraguas starts definitively in the year 2011. Its birth owes to the meeting of young professionals with long experience, who put all their effort and knowledge in recovering the brilliance that the Ribeiro, one of the best white wines of the world, enjoyed once. Felicísimo Pereira and Marcial Pita, two figures of the Galician wine scene, has joined to create the unique white: El Paraguas Atlántico 2011. An innovative spirit, which seeks to use the last technologies, moves them to relaunch a singular wine with centuries of history. 405 Spanish wines and spirits have taken part in the IV National Wine Press Award 2012, proposed by members of the AEPEV. 82% of members have exercised their rights to vote.
