The recently
re-established firm of Fernández-Gao has launched a new high quality communion
wine which is not
only the first such wine with the Denominación de Origen Sherry but also has the
approval of the Bishop. The idea was born of the friendship between the parish
priest of Algar, Juan Antonio Vital, and the technical director of Fernández-Gao,
Juan Carlos Sánchez. The Bishop had contacted the priest about establishing a new
parish in Arcos, which naturally would need funding, and Juan Carlos offered to
help. Juan Antonio thought up the wine’s name and designed the label, while Juan
Carlos created the wine.
The bodega is not producing De Ecclesia for
profit, but the parish priest feels the Church could sell the wine at 6-7 euros
and has already obtained a domain name for this purpose. Production is unlikely
to exceed 10,000 bottles however. Communion wine has traditionally been a
fairly low strength basic wine gifted in garrafas to the priests by the bodegas,
but not usually specifically made for the purpose. De Ecclesia, in contrast,
will be fully bottled and labelled and the arms of the city will adorn the top
of the cork. They are so confident in the quality of the wine that they are
recommending people to take the host and the wine separately so as to appreciate
its flavour.
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