León wineries have won eleven top prizes at the Zarcillo Awards, five at the Baco Awards and three at Ecovino, and have accumulated forty-one awards so far this season alone

Nineteen medals, mostly gold, make up the extraordinary balance of the participation of the wineries belonging to the Regulatory Council of the León Designation of Origin in the last three major international wine competitions of the 2025 calendar. Eleven of them awarded prizes to wines made from the indigenous grape varieties Albarín and Prieto Picudo at the prestigious Zarcillo International Wine Awards 2025, which were preceded by five at the Baco National Young Wines Competition and three at Ecovino, which this year reached its sixteenth edition.

The winery El Sueño de las Alforjas (Valdevimbre) has already established itself as a classic in the Ecovino organic wine competition, on this occasion with a great gold for “El Sueño de las Alforjas”, an aged white wine from the Albarín variety from the 2022 vintage, and two golds for “Cascabel”, a white wine from the same grape variety, and “Mojalpico”, a rosé wine from Prieto Picudo, both from the 2024 vintage.

Meóriga (Mayorga de Campos) and Gordonzello (Gordoncillo) did a double in the Baco National Young Wines Competition. The first with a gold medal for “Esencia 33” and a silver medal for Finca Tiramulos. And the second, with silver medals for “Peregrino” and “Gurdos”. Finally, Tampesta-Andrés Marcos (Valdevimbre) won its fifth medal in this competition, also silver, with its “Tampesta”. All of them rosés of the Prieto Picudo variety and, as the rules stipulate, from 2024.

The Zarcillo International Wine Awards, the big event for wines from Castilla y León, was particularly prolific for wines from the León Designation of Origin, which garnered eleven important awards. Meóriga (Mayorga de Campos) once again did a double, this time with gold medals for the reds “Finca Tiramulos 2021” and “SM Roble 2022”, both made from the Prieto Picudo grape variety. The highest step of the podium was also taken by the whites “Maneki”, an oaked albarín from 2023 (Tampesta-Andrés Marcos, Valdevimbre) and “Albaricus”, from the same variety and from 2024 (Vitis Velado-Castrotierra de Valmadrigal), and the rosés 2024 “Peregrino” (Gordonzello) and “Lágrima de Vitalis” (Vitalis-Villamañán).

The silver medals were again awarded to the “Finca Tiramulos” and “SM Roble” (Meóriga), both from the queen wine and the 2021 vintage, the red “Abadía de Balderedo” (Cooperativa Comarcal de Valdevimbre), a Gran Reserva from the 2009 vintage aged 85 months in oak which had already received the same award in the previous edition of the competition, and the rosés from the last vintage “Peregrino” (Gordonzello) and “Valle Gudín” (Melwa-Valdevimbre).

These high distinctions bring to forty-one the number of medals won by DO León wines (three Grand Gold, twenty-six Gold and twelve Silver) in the first and most prestigious international wine competitions so far this season -Catavinum World Wine&Spirits Competition, Concours International de Lyon, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Bacchus International Wine Competition, International Awards Virtus de Lisboa, Cinve Awards, as well as the aforementioned Ecovino, Baco and Zarcillo International Wine Awards -, confirming the excellent organoleptic qualities and the extraordinary oenological potential of the indigenous varieties that are a reference in the wine-growing territory of the south of the province of León and the north of Valladolid: Albarín in the case of whites and Prieto Picudo for rosés and reds accredited and certified by the Regulatory Council.

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