Throughout her career she
managed to accumulate a fair share of awards. In 2012 she managed to receive
the award of “Best winemaker of the Year” by Revista dos Vinhos, being the only
female winemaker to receive so far such an award.
At the end of 2009 Susana
Esteban decided to establish herself as a wine producer starting her personnel
project. She decided to make wines full of character in a slightly different
style of the Alentejo traditional way. For two years she looked around
(Procura) all of the Alentejo for the perfect vineyards to set her wines. She
had to wait until 2011 to finally discover the two small vineyards that set the
foundation for her two wines. In Portalegre, up in the mountains of S. Mamede,
she found an old mixed planting of several different varieties, again with very
small yields, that provide an amazing complexity and freshness. By blending
these two vineyards she managed to make “Procura”.
In January of 2016, she
received the award “Revelation Producer of the Year 2015” by the prestigious
Magazine “Wine – Essência do Vinho” by the huge success reached for the wines
produced, both nationally and internationally.
Susana Esteban has established
a recent partnership with her good friend and also winemaker Sandra Tavares to
make wines together. The first wine that came from this partnership was
“Crochet”, a red wine form the Douro region. More recently, in 2014, a new wine
came out of this partnership, this time called “Tricot” and based and made at
Susana Esteban’s Alentejo winery.
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