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Bodegas El Paraguas has just received, for the fourth time in its short history, the award for Best Wine in Spain according to the AEPEV (Asociación Española de Periodistas y Escritores del Vino). This award goes to the flagship white of the Galician company, El Paraguas Atlántico 2022, recognized as the Best Wine of Spain in the category of “Oak Aged White Wines”.

El Paraguas Atlántico 2022 has been awarded this important distinction following the decision made by the almost 200 members of the Spanish wine press association. It is important to highlight that the AEPEV Awards are not a typical competition or tasting. Being included among the products to be evaluated is only allowed by the criteria of the opinion leaders (AEPEV partners) based on the news generated during the year and also considering the products tasted by them throughout 2023. The relationship between producers and communicators generates news and these popularize the wines. These AEPEV Awards recognize the best, according to the particular criteria of each of our partners.

The members of the AEPEV chose 451 wines and 108 spirits, which after the first selection determined the table of FINALISTS with 155 wines, 59 spirits and 10 vermouths that were voted on in the second round by journalists and whose result has allowed Bodegas El Paraguas to win the award that they will collect next spring at an event organized by the AEPEV with some of the most important prescribers in Spain.

Luis Gutiérrez Santo Domingo, taster for Spain, Argentina, Chile and Loira for the prestigious publication The Wine Advocate, shared two days with the managers of Bodegas El Paraguas to learn, first-hand, both the initiative carried out by the company in the northernmost vineyard of Galicia, and the “source” of its wines in the Avia valley of the D.O. Ribeiro.

This visit was shared by the prescriber from Ávila on his social media and brought with it the assessment of the latest vintages of the wines made by Bodegas El Paraguas. An evaluation that places, once again, the Galician company among the main wineries in Galicia and as one of the leaders in the production of white wines worldwide.

The wine which the man who awards Parker points in Spain liked the most was La Sombrilla 2019, rated with 95 Parker points. A score that places the white wine from Bodegas El Paraguas on the pedestal of the best wines on the planet. The rest of the Atlantic company’s whites also achieved excellent ratings, such as Fai un Sol de Carallo 2020 and Fai un Sol de Carallo 2018 (94+ points both, the best rating in the history of this limited wine); or Astillero 2021, which with its 93+ points becomes, for the second consecutive time with only two vintages on the market, the highest rated wine made with Blaco Legítimo variety in the publication. Finally, El Paraguas Atlántico 2021 reached the not inconsiderable rating of 93 points.