Since the first document of land purchase carried out in the area dated on familia document files in 1543, going through the license of the land property given to the family in Villarobledo and signed by Philip II in 1591, until Villarobledo Battle dated during the First Carlist War (20th September in 1836) when Heredad de Atencia and Las Clavellinas vineyards were about to harvest, were devastated, evidences exist in relation to this family with country life and viniculture in the area.
Philloxera devastation took placed during the first decades of the 20th Century and the vast majority of the lands were destroyed. Mery de la Peña Acacio (Pedro Acacio Sandoval´s widow) started the first reconstruction of the plantation vineyard with American vines and engrafted them to local varieties.
Across the second half of the 20th Century, viticulture and winemaking in bulk became relevant due to Matilde Acacio de la Peña, one of the four daughters of Mery de la Peña, enlarged the extension of the vineyard significantly in El Gordo where nowadays is located our small production and aging winery. In those years our wines were sent to important wine regions like La Rioja and Jerez.
In the 70´s and 80´s, Antonio Núñez Arenas and Raquel Blat Acacio started a process of modernization in la Heredad de Atencia and Las Clavellinas, introducing new grape farming and technologies.
Grape farming and wine making required huge investments that retail price was not possible to accomplish in that moment. For that reason, the winery closed and pulling up the most part of the vineyard are the decisions inevitably taken then.
But the time goes by and we are currently now in the 21st Century and Fernando and Alfonso, Antonio and Raquel´s sons have taken up the glove of their own history and under the slogan “OMNIA IN MELIUS” (Everything for the better) have returned to their vineyards with a renewed spirit and with a new project to make aged wines.
