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Bodegas Mondalón Picachos

Founded in 1990

Juan Manuel Hernandez Cruz (viticulturist) and Luis Molina Roldán (winemaker) form a team that has brought the wine sector of Gran Canaria a big boost in the last ten years. Already in the second half of the eighties, the first of which began to make its first wines in the pits, until in the nineties knows who would become his partner and decide between them, implement an experimental winery . Born then Picachos Mondalón-SL, a winery that focuses on research using modern technology, but with traditional grape varieties planted Canary in the experimental La Vica. A few years later, the results have encouraged them to eliminate negramoll and Pedro Ximenez, to prevail, respectively, and the Castilian tintilla grapes and Malvasia and Muscat in white.

The winery owns 30,000 square meters spread over two farms, one is Mondalón (where also the winery) and the other La Vica (just below the peak Bandama). Also, they have associated with about 100,000 meters winery on other farms.

Among his most unique projects in 1999 highlighted the development of the first sparkling wine from the island, with a completely handmade disgorgement in a hood made ??for themselves, having frozen the neck of the bottle at 20 ° C below zero.