Javier Bañales: “To be a great classic you first have to be a great young man”.
Active tradition, brands that move and wines that don’t wait. In this second part, Javier Bañales defends the value of balance and emotion as a compass for making and enjoying wine.
Javier Bañales: “Rioja is more alive than ever”.
Javier Bañales reflects on the current situation in Rioja and shares the concept that defines Martínez Lacuesta’s style: tuning. A way of winemaking that respects time, mouth and memory.
Rioja and Ribera. Martínez, Lacuesta and Camelo, Rodero. Masters of the time.
The fourth episode of the Sólido y Líquido wine podcast brought together Javier Bañales, general manager of Bodegas Martínez Lacuesta, and Jesús Sánchez, ambassador of Bodegas Carmelo Rodero, in Mallorca. A conversation between two Masters of Time.
Félix Martínez Lacuesta and the first great defence of Rioja wine
In 1915, Félix Martínez Lacuesta led the first major defence of Rioja wine against the risk of counterfeiting in free ports. His intervention paved the way for the creation of the Designation of Origin and the Control Board.
