CONDADO DE HAZA: at three thousand meters high

“Alejandro Fernandez crunched over the packed snow in boots somebody had just loaned him, carrying a bottle of his 2000 Condado de Haza Reserva…

...and pouring some wine for anyone nearby. “Cheers” he said, raising the bottle to the snow flakes slowly falling near the Vail Mountain’s peak”.

The wine maker was participating in the ‘Taste of Vail’ or the first time. The event consists on a series of dinners, tasting seminars, parties and gastronomic exhibitions, and also a picnic over the mountain where the ‘Taste of Vail’ takes place annually in the last fifteen year (three of four days during the ski season in Vail Mountain (Colorado, USA), usually in the end of the winter.

Since nobody had told him anything about the surroundings, Alejandro arrived wearing a suit to take part of the picnic in a tent on the snowy mountain, at three thousand meters high and with a wonderful view of the Rocky Mountains. Although the storm clouds that were approaching, Alejandro and the others 50 wine makers and oenologists invited from many countries had resisted, and could present their wines to hundreds of fans that had come (by ski or gondola). In the meantime, the restaurants of the regions were offering theirs specialties, using special can stoves.

Alejandro Fernández was also the star at one of the Winemaker Dinners, where the menu had been specifically create to best combine the wine and the food and the winemakers comment theirs wines. Once more, the Pesquera Corp. wines were a wonderful success during the dinner ate the Country Club of the Rockies.