Ribera del Duero, February 2025 (Valladolid). Finca Villacreces harvests a new award, this time with its wine Specimen 3, which has won the Revelation Wine of the Year Award at the awards given by Verema, the largest online community of wine in Spanish and that given its importance, are already qualified as the Oscars of Wine. This award will be presented on February 9 during the Verema Valencia Experience.
Finca Villacreces adds a great award more to its extent and this year celebrates that its wine, Specimen 3, has arise with Revelation Wine Award in a year in which, once again, Verema has surpassed all expectations achieving more than 325.000 votes for its 18 awards categories. Finca Villacreces adds another great award to its extensive list of awards and this year celebrates that its wine Specimen 3 has won the Revelation Wine Award in a year in which Verema has once again exceeded all its expectations and has obtained more than 325,000 votes for the 18 categories of its awards.
Specimen wine was born at the end of November 2020 as a wine that stands out for combining different peculiarities that make it unique and unrepeatable. For the elaboration of the award winner Specimen 3, the winery has selected the best grapes from three different vintages – 2017, 2018 and 2019 – from diferente plots of the 64 hectares that Finca Villacreces vineyard owns in the Golden Mile of Ribera del Duero.
These three vintages are made separately, aged for 48 months in Bordeaux barrels and 1200 liter foudres resulting in a very complex wine and one of the most surprising of the winery and Ribera del Duero. The varieties used were Tempranillo (85%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (15%).
Of this collector's wine, which is only released every two years, only 5,068 bottles have been produced, 50% of which were distributed in Spain and the other 50% in other export markets.
Finca Villacreces already won in 2020 the Verema Award for Best Wine Tourism Project, which recognized the work that the winery has been doing in recent years with its sustainable wine tourism experiences and the organization of the Día Pruno wine festival.
