The origins
of this Company in Sanlúcar go back to the beginning of the XIX century when
Pio Gutiérrez and his wife Gregoria de los Ríos left their native Santander for
Sanlúcar. There they bought a bodega and its soleras as well as vineyard. They
had three daughters, María, Manuela and Mercedes, and it was the latter who
married Heliodoro Carbajo Gallego from Zamora and set up in business as a grocer,
but soon moving into thewine business. They added old family soleras such as
those of María Gutiérrez de los Rios who was married to Antonio López de Rábago,
also a bodeguero, and bought other old soleras from the trade in Sanlúcar.
Together,
Mercedes and Heliodoro built up the family business which would become the one
which exists today. Their son, Rafael Carbajo Gutiérrez, was born in Sanlúcar
and it was he who did much to modernise the business. He married Josefa Ruiz Acosta,
also born in Sanlúcar. After the death of Rafael in 1985, Josefa, decided to
continue with the business together with her two sons, Rafael Ángel and José
Miguel Carbajo Ruiz, who still run the bodega today.
Carbajo Ruíz
have three bodegas: Doña Manuela, the oldest, dating from 1902, Nuestra Señora
de la Caridad, and Bodega La Solera, built in 1975 and with 4000 square metres,
not to mention the Jerez Superior vineyards. The range of wines consists of:
Manzanilla
Predilecta (over 3 years old)
Pale Cream
Predilecta (interestingly sweetened with Moscatel)
Amontillado
Mítico (10 years old)
Medium Mítico
Oloroso
Distinguido (aged 10 years)
Cream
Imperial (10 years old)
Moscatel de
pasas Bondadoso
PX
Bondadoso (5 years old)
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