Óscar Aragón

The Essentials - Vintage preference: “2005 is the most balanced vintage; I don't know if it's the best, but it's the one I like most of all the wines we've made at the winery.” There is a quietness to the preference, a respect for equilibrium over theatrics. In Óscar’s telling, balance is not a dry technical term but a kind of ideal: the point at which the wine seems to breathe evenly, each part in conversation with the next. - Advice to a young winemaker: “He should try many things, from many places, from many countries, and if possible get to know many regions, the people who make the wines, and above all the people who work the land, who are the ones who give soul to the wines.” His counsel stretches far beyond the cellar. It is an invitation to travel, to observe, and to listen closely to the people whose hands shape the vineyard long before a bottle is ever filled.

Signature

Óscar's signature wines include Torresilo and Golfo. Together, they hint at the range of his work at Cillar de Silos: wines that carry identity not as decoration, but as the distilled result of patient decisions, from vineyard to finished bottle.

In Their Words “He should try many things, from many places, from many countries, and if possible get to know many regions, the people who make the wines, and above all the people who work the land, who are the ones who give soul to the wines.” “Because of my father, who had vineyards, and once we decided to start a small project, since the grapes were being sold to a cooperative in Quintana in 1993, we thought we would make our own grapes, as simple as that, nothing more.”