BODEGAS PRESAS OCAMPO

About Winery and Wines

Presas Ocampo is a black wine made mostly with indigenous varietals, listán grapes, grape negramoll accompanied by some other variety in small amounts, harvested in September and October. And a garnet red wine is obtained, with violet hues, blue and cherry. With good tear, on average, clean and bright. Its bouquet is clean, with rich primary aromas typical of black listán variety. On the upside, it offers a good structure in protruding floral and mineral tones. Its aftertaste is exquisite and remember the varietal aromas. It is, in itself, a clean, round and elegant wine. The winery Presa Ocampo is due to the clear commitment of the entrepreneur Tacoronte Mr. Domingo López Arvelo, which after many years dedicated to the business world, begins to feel the need to return to its origins, to his childhood. For those years in which he learned from his father the care and respect for the land. Mr. Domingo López, son, grandson and great-grandson of winemakers, from childhood is bamboozled into the world of wine culture. The hard work of the vineyard (completely handmade in those years), morning icy Tacoronteras are enlivened by sips of wine, fruit of the earth, sweat, work and the painstaking care devoted to it all year, and it looked so much effort rewarded. Those memories, that attachment to the land and traditions are what lead to Mr. Domingo López to resume the activity that you both linked to his father, to the land and wine. With the knowledge of traditional production, and engaging local varieties technological advances starts one of the most modern wineries Canaries, with the intention of obtaining the wine that best remember the old. The winery Dams Ocampo, is a family winery Canarian typical simple structure, well known for the traditional architecture of the area, taking advantage of reduced temperature that provides the burial, it was decided to bury most of the facilities for processing and maturing wine.