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The Last Artisanal Winery of Valladolid

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October 12, 2025

In a quiet Spanish village, time slows, stones press grapes, and wine is made by muscle and memory

- By VEIDEHI GITE

The saviors of Spanish wine making are a family, barely known outside the country, who live and work in the Fuensaldaña village, where barely two thousand souls wander the cobbled streets.

They are the Crespos. One of them lifts a 1,000-kilo stone with the ease of Hercules on steroids. At EME Bodegas, the future of Spanish winemaking is a step-or rather, several centuries-behind. "This is how my father did it, and my grandfather before him," Ricardo Crespo, third-generation winemaker, says, as you sidestep a hulking wooden contraption that looks more like a medieval torture device than a tool for vinification. Here, tradition isn't a museum piece; it's the pulse of the cellar. While neighbours have joined the mechanised sprint of modern wine production, EME still operates as if 1623 never ended; the results are intoxicating.

The building itself whispers of past centuries. Squat limestone walls rise unevenly, giving the winery hobbit-like charm; a pastoral nook rather than a production powerhouse. Terracotta tiles crown the roof, and a diminutive white chimney peeks like a shy sentinel.

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