And speaking of stories, here comes Veravier La Piedad 2023, our flagship wine from Labastida. Elegant, refined, deep, personal, vibrant, and incomparable… and yes, a touch pretentious.

The excitement is palpable as we head toward 2026: new markets, new challenges, and even more glasses to raise. Because if 2025 taught us anything, it’s that wine carries joy and nourishes our humanity… and sometimes, it even laughs as it’s being made—and that is the greatest satisfaction of all.

And now, dear readers, a question for you: if you could raise a glass with one iconic wine from your life, which would you choose—and why? Don’t worry, you can answer honestly… or invent an elegant excuse, the way we do when someone asks whether we drank the last bottle in the cellar.

So here’s the wrap-up: 2025 has filled our cups, 2026 promises surprises… and we’re ready to toast with you—even virtually on WhatsApp.

Because our philosophy is that wine is meant to be drunk, felt, savored, and shared in an endless cycle… and a good toast should always come with a smile.

More surprises are on the way, including the publication of a collection of personal poetry—the result of a long journey—written in the pauses between vinifications, guided by inspiration. I will continue shaping these captivating landscapes that fill our souls and invite us into a calm, unhurried reading—one I will accompany with a glass of wine, like a pianist who, after caressing every passage, raises a toast once the piece is complete.

Long life and health to you for 2026!!

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For me, 2023 also signifies a personal milestone: it is the first year of vinification of the plot I acquired in Labastida, planted in 1950. It is a place with a unique soul, which I wanted to name after my children, Vera and Javier: Veravier. I feel each bunch that is born there as a legacy that they, one day, will also be able to make their own.

The wines we are now presenting have something that excites me: vibrant freshness, polished tannins, a very honest expression of what they are. Among them, La Bendecida and Buradón reveal themselves with a surprising floral delicacy, sustained on a mineral background that reminds me, every time I taste it, of the soil from which it comes.

I experienced this year as an exercise in listening. I didn’t want to impose anything, but rather to accompany. And the truth is that the wines spoke for themselves.

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Each bottle that leaves the winery carries a piece of earth, of time, and of living history. But above all, it carries something of mine: the conviction that wine, when born from honesty, is capable of moving us and connecting us with the place it comes from.

“My wines are landscapes that turn into feelings.” C. Sánchez 2025

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Working different parcels has taught me that there is no single approach in the winery: each wine asks for its own way of being accompanied. It is like listening to different voices that, together, speak of the same place.

The soil is not a support; it is a silent storyteller. And I believe that in Rioja we still have much to discover, much to interpret. At least I continue learning every day to read that language buried beneath our feet.

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Winter rains gave us a generous budding, but the early heat of May slowed the vigor of the vines, balancing leaves and fruit in an almost unexpected way. It has also been a challenging year because of mildew, which forced us to be even more present in each plot.

I work organically, under ecological practices, which means accepting that nature sets the pace. The beauty lies in seeing how the vineyard responds: biodiversity expanding, life everywhere, even the return of wild bees to corners they hadn’t visited in years.

Deep down, what I feel is that the vineyard is expressing itself with more freedom. And our role is to accompany it, shoulder to shoulder, in this battle that is the 2025 vintage.

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It is a bush-trained vineyard, tended with care and minimal intervention, because my intention has always been to reflect what the landscape transmits to me: serenity, restrained strength, and an energy you can feel when walking among those vines.

With only 1,400 bottles, I know it will be a wine for those who seek authenticity, for those who savor the elegance that only time and the land know how to bestow.

“Between soils, landscapes and people, wine is my way of loving.”

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