#garagewine

Jesús Ángel Toledo and Julián Ajenjo are two cousins based in Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha). Besides getting along really well, they complement each other perfectly. Jesús, the fifth generation of farmers, is the man behind the wine whilst Julián, who is an accountant, is the no-nonsense guy crunching the numbers.

The name of their project makes perfect sense. They started out in a garage with the basics -two tanks, two barrels, a destemmer and a crusher- to produce their first 500 bottles in the 2015 vintage. The number of wines and bottles has increased since then but they remain loyal to their origins. At present, they make around 10,000 bottles of eight different wines.

The focus is on indigenous, largely forgotten grapes. They have planted one hectare to white Albilla as well as other varieties recovered by IVICAM (Castilla-La Mancha’s Institute of Vine and Wine)