Her fifth project, in fact the one Ester Nin Llort started her career with in 2004, takes place a little further away from Catalonia, in the La Marcha appellation of Almansa. There, together with Pep Aguilar and Patri Morillo, both oenologists from the Priorato, she takes charge of the viticulture and oenology for Bodegas Almanseñas, where three wines are made from Garnacha Tintorera and Monastrell. The wines are: ‘La Huella de Adaras’, ‘La Vega de Adaras’ and ‘Adaras’.

And lastly, she started working at Terra de Verema in the Vilella Baixa del Priorato region in 2005 with Ramón Farré, also an oenologist. Here they make ‘Triumvirat’ and ‘Corelium’. Both 90 percent Cariñena, 5 percent Garnacha and 5 percent Syrah. The first wine is aged12 months in re-used oak and the second wine is aged 18 months in new oak. “Both are very refreshing wines, because they are made essentially from Cariñena, although they follow the same style used as regards minerality and potential for Priorato wines”, Ester Nin clarified.

The oenologist works in an ecological and biodymanic way in all of the six projects. “I think that ecology is the only option we young oenologist ought to defend. It’s our responsibility to treat the vineyards, which we are lucky enough to work with, with respect. We have all the technological elements necessary to make high quality wine while treating the environment with maximum respect”, defended Ester Nin who believes that, “the native varieties, low yields, fermentation with native yeasts, controlled temperatures and just the right amount of wood are essential for making wines that give us the flavour of the soils they come from: their fabulous terroir”.

As to the future, Ester Nin plans to maintain all of her projects. “It’s my intention to continue with all of them, without increasing the number of bodegas, so that I can improve the quality of the wines, the vineyards and the teams of people I work with”.

And in the longer-term, this successful oenologist still has some unfinished business to content with: “I’d like to go back to my native soil, Penedés, and make something from the family vineyard where I grew up”, Ester Nin Llort concluded.