Since the 2000 vintage, Juan Manuel Burgos has been producing his AVAN wines in the Castilian town of Fuentelcesped, Ribera del Duero and has established himself well as a small premium supplier. With total production currently still under 100,000 bottles, the quality has always been pleasing to date. Juanma, as he is called, began his winemaking career at Felix Lorenzo Cachazo in Rueda, where he worked for a few years before joining the Cachopa winery in Ribera del Duero. When his family provided him with 40 to 100-year- old Tempranillo vineyards, he began to create his own wine: Avan. The grapes are carefully selected before they are further processed in our own winery (since 2005). In the cellar, gravity technology is used, i.e. the grape must is not pumped, but rather transported into the stainless steel tanks from above using a crane. The small conical stainless steel tanks are custom-made, like those used by Mariano Garcia at Aalto. Juan Manuel Burgos' range consists of pure Tempranillo wines: the Avan Nacimiento, which is made from younger vines, as well as the Avan Concentracion, which is made from 40-80 year old vines, the Avan Valhernando, which is made from the best parcel of the Concentracion ( 80 years) in an edition of only 1,800 bottles, the single vineyard Viñedo de Torrubio and the Avan Cepas Centenarias, an extract from over 100-year-old vines with a production quantity of only 1,000 bottles.