Collection: Victoria Ordoñez

[Revival of Malaga's traditional Pedro Ximenez and Moscatel]

Wine has been a part of Victoria Ordóñez's life for as long as she can remember. Her father, José María Ordóñez, was a pioneer in the Spanish wine industry, selling fine wines throughout the province of Malaga since the 1950s. Although Victoria's own career took a different direction (she studied to be a doctor and earned an MD), she decided to enter the wine business in 2004, initially combining it with her job as a health services administrator.

Victoria relied entirely on the Austrian winemaker Alois Kracher, with whom she had worked on Malaga wines, until his death in 2007. At this point, her career took a new turn, as she decided to focus solely on her passion: wine. In 2015, she decided to undertake a project to restore, in an ecologically sustainable way, one of the most iconic indigenous grape varieties in Malaga's wine history: Pedro Ximénez, in the Serra de Málaga Natural Park. Her son, agronomist Guillermo Martín Ordóñez, works alongside her in this endeavor. He brings a technical perspective and personal vision and creativity to the winery's various winemaking processes.

To differentiate, Victoria decided to add Pedro Ximénez de los Montes de Málaga, the exceptional grape variety grown in Málaga that gave Málaga wine its fame and international renown between the 17th and 19th centuries.

These wines, mostly dry, have not been produced since phylloxera until now, so we are faced with a risky innovation project, as there is no reference for this type of wine.

The research led them to explore the previously forgotten wine-growing region of Montes de Málaga, which includes Málaga, Casabermeja and Colmenar. They had to search for months before finding a small plot of old vineyards to find the non-existent Pedro Ximénez.

The work was carried out with the cooperation of the Regulatory Commission of Málaga and the Sierras de Málaga. In addition to Pedro Ximénez, Victoria is also betting on Moscatel for her new venture, a variety she knows well and has worked with throughout her professional career.