i. Biography
The work of the cellar is where his account lands: not in abstraction, but in the practical labor of shaping fruit, season, and place into wine. When he says, “What´s not to love about it!?”, the line reads less like flourish than a plain report on what holds the craft together—attention, patience, and the discipline to keep at it bottle after bottle. What comes through in the craft is a directness that stays close to process. At Bodegas Trenza, that meant the day-to-day decisions of the winery, the steady tasting, and the long view required to make wine with more than technical competence. Tofterup’s words point to a maker who treats winemaking as a practice where pleasure and rigor are not opposites. The language is simple, but the commitment is clear: the work is to carry feeling into form without losing control of the making.
Signature
David's signature wines include Rizado Old Vines Monastrell, Trenza Family Collection, La Nymphina, and La Ophica Collection. Read together, the names mark a body of work that moves across distinct expressions without losing coherence. Rizado Old Vines Monastrell suggests weight and age; Trenza Family Collection points to continuity; La Nymphina and La Ophica Collection widen the range. Taken as a group, the wines present David Tofterup’s work as varied in form but consistent in intent, each label carrying the same maker’s hand.
In Their Words “What´s not to love about it!? I love everything about making wine.” The line is plain, and that is its strength. It does not reach for theory or posture; it states an attachment to the work itself. In the context of the cellar, it reads as a maker’s answer to the craft as lived practice. “I pour every thing I love into every bottle and every glass.” This is a statement about transfer as much as intention: what is held in the maker goes into the bottle, then into the glass. The phrasing suggests a direct, personal investment in the finished wine, with no separation between the work done and the result served.
Profile updated July 2026
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Who is David Tofterup?
David Tofterup is A Danish Winemaker born in Denmark.
