Valdaya is a symbol of passionate wines made with love and perseverance, always using the best techniques alongside the grape’s particular characteristics.

Marta Ramas and Miguel Fisac are the hands and brains on Valdaya’s team, two young winemaker engineers with extensive international experience. They hold degrees in Oenolgy from the University of Bordeaux (one of the most prestigious universities in the world) and worked all across the world (Bordeaux, California, New Zealand and South Africa). They help to bring a new vision that compels the Valdaya wines to constantly move forward, improving every year.

There’s one interesting story to be told, about the challenging 2013 vintage in northern Spain. It rained during the vintage and all over Ribera del Duero and the winery presented a logistical setback. Nevertheless, Marta and Miguel managed to create something special. While the original winery had been designed to absorb large quantities of grapes (big tanks – too big for the kind of winemaking required nowadays) the wines struggled for ripeness due to the bad weather, Marta and Miguel initiated a new way of working at Valdaya – micro fermentations in used barrels, with every process carried out by hand.

The Valdaya winery had been around for several years but only in the beginning of the century had it been modernized with the purpose of applying selective vinification from the different grape plots that were meant to be turned into wine. This technique expresses and allows it to make the best use of the properties of the grapes. The main purpose is to continue to study and experiment the fusion between traditional techniques and modern developments.

That 2013 vintage was never going to create any wine superstars in Ribera, but there was enough quality in Marta and Miguel’s work. The wine showed silkiness, elegance, purity of fruit and a clear finesse that immediately set it apart from most of the other wines made in Ribera. More than anything, this wine showed promise – maybe not so much for the wine, but for the people who had made it. The next year, the 2014 wine possessed immense power and concentration but retained all the finesse of Marta and Miguel’s painstaking micro vinifications.

Today, Valdaya has a small but very powerful portfolio, working with only two wines  – the “Valdaya” and the “Valdaya Mirum”. In both, the plots are vinified separately and the philosophy is always the same – to let every little terroir express its potential into the wine.