QUINTA DEL MANCO
A bit of history in a bottle
There isn’t an elderly inhabitant in town who can’t remember “el Manco” –“the one-armed man” – who used to be a fixture in the landscape, using his sole upper limb to hold hoe, pruning shears and wine jug alike.
To the younger folks today, el Manco is just the name given to one of the parcels of land inside the estate of La Legua. That name no longer brings back distant memories of the crippled old man who used to take care of the vineyards at La Legua, but instead conjures up the more famous one-armed gentleman who returned victorious from the Battle of Lepanto and left behind his legacy of the world’s most universally known roving knight: Don Quixote.
Because from 1604 to 1606, “El Manco de Lepanto,” as Cervantes came to be known due to his war wounds, also became a local resident of Valladolid –then the Royal Court of King Philip III– and it was here that he published what would become his most important work: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
As an homage to them both, the Manco de La Legua and the Manco de Lepanto, we have created QUINTA DEL MANCO:
An intense line of highly varietal wines very typical of our land, but with an undercurrent of originality and madness reminiscent of Spain’s legendary knight errant.
- QUINTA del MANCO Roble
- QUINTA del MANCO Crianza
- QUINTA del MANCO Reserva