La Legua

The La Legua estate is home to the vineyards and the family winery of the same name, located 6 km – one league – from Valladolid. With a centuries-old history, the new chapter of the La Legua estate began in 1969, when Emeterio Fernández Marcos, a neurologist and psychiatrist from Valladolid, passionate about the countryside and agriculture, acquired the estate, believing in its potential to produce high-quality red wines.

In the 1980s, he undertook the restructuring of the vineyard, uprooting almost all the old vines (which mixed varieties within the same plot) and planting trellised vines in single-variety plots. In 1997, La Legua inaugurated new facilities built over the tunnels of the estate's existing centuries-old winery, and in the same year produced its first vintage using its own vineyard, which had already reached the appropriate age.

Today, the La Legua estate encompasses 80 hectares of vineyards aged between 28 and 35 years, divided into 7 plots. Depending on the type of soil, a specific grape variety is cultivated in each plot. Exclusively using these own vineyards (85% Tempranillo, 8% Garnacha Tinta, and 7% Cabernet Sauvignon), La Legua produces red wines and a rosé under the D.O. Cigales.