Javier Sanz Cantalapiedra
Wineries
Family
Javier Sanz represents the fourth generation of winemakers who have continued the tradition for more than 150 years.
Professional career
Javier's connection to viticulture is an inherited, familial bond that dates back four generations of winegrowers. His great-grandfather, Agustín Nanclares, planted the first vineyards that Javier Sanz continues to care for and nurture daily. Since childhood, he has learned the family techniques and viticultural practices, participating in all field processes, from harvest to pruning. From his youth to the present, Javier Sanz has been updating this inherited knowledge through advanced viticulture courses, combined with the daily practice of tending to his own vineyard.
It is common to see Javier visiting the vineyard daily, sometimes multiple times a day, checking the plant's development and evolution to ensure the quality and health of the grapes each year, because, as he firmly states, "good grapes are essential to achieve quality wines."
Javier Sanz Cantalapiedra embodies the figure of the winegrower, convinced of the differentiation of his wines through viticulture. For this reason, he has dedicated the last ten years of his life to studying plant genetics, recovering nearly extinct varieties, and offering distinctive wines directly from the vines. Additionally, Javier Sanz Cantalapiedra preserves as a jewel of viticulture and his family heritage a pre-phylloxera vineyard, dating back to before 1863, a metaphor for his family history and a link to viticulture.