Ricardo Perez Co-Founder of VINTAE & Rising Star Winemaker Raul Acha

Catch this interview with Ricardo Perez, co-founder of VINTAE Wines and his rising star winemaker Raul Acha. We had a challenging start to our interview when we couldn’t establish a connection, but after a few adjustments and about ten minutes into the show, we connected and had a great interview in spite of the language barrier.

VINTAE Wines is a young wine company producing some exceptional Spanish wines from six different regions in Spain.  They currently have seven wine projects they are working on including the renowned MATSU, Winery Arts, and Maetierra DominVm. They are firm believers in preserving terroir and practice sustainable, biodynamic viticulture.

Ricardo Arambarri Pérez, Richi, as his friends call him, is manager and co-founder of Vintae. Passionate and a wine lover, he travels all over the world to expand the VINTAE dream that the whole team is creating. Entrepreneur by family inheritance, his main wish is create and boost projects. Ricardo holds a Bachelor and MBA in Business Administration by ESADE Business School.

Raul Acha is the Technical manager and Winemaker of Vintae. The seven oenologic projects of Vintae

in six regions of Spain were born due to his great team of oenologist and the enormous quantity of kilometers that he drives every year along the different wine making areas in Spain. He was born in Cárdena, a small village in La Rioja in 1976. He grew up in a family of viticulturist from which he learned all the wine making tradition of Rioja. He holds an engineering degree in Agronomy, bachelor in Oenology and Diploma of Advances Studies of Oenology.

Join me as I interview each of these remarkable young men and learn more about their vision. Also try their delicious Tempranillo, “El Picaro”, from the MATSU collection.