Wine journalist, contributor for Decanter Magazine since 2002, his writing appears regularly on the Drink Business since 2020. Filippo is a wine educator and a public speaker at heart, hosting several Wine Academies on Italian wines and many collectors events.

Pasqua Wines CEO since 2015. He began his career with Pasqua in 2007 and was appointed Sales Director in 2014, a role he still holds today. He was head of operations in the United States before being appointed to lead the company.

Associate editor of Meininger’s International, is founder of the International Wine Challenge and a multi-award winning former wine critic and author. He co-created le Grand Noir, one of France’s best selling brands in the US, 20 years ago, and recently launched K’AVSHIRI with Vladimer Kublashvili as an innovative wine venture in Georgia.

Head Winemaker at Viña Valdivieso. He arrived in 2001, after working with renown wineries in France, the United States, New Zealand and South Africa.

Pablo Álvarez Mezquíriz is the CEO of TEMPOS Vega Sicilia. He is the owner, along with his siblings, of El Enebro, the equity company of the Álvarez family and is the current Chair of Europvin, which represents Europe’s best wine portfolio.

Graduated in Law from the Center of University Studies of Madrid and holds a Diploma in Corporate Legal Advice from the Madrid Business Institute, Pablo Álvarez held different posts at Eulen, where he was Director from 1980 to 2009. He was appointed as the General Manager of Bodegas Vega Sicilia in 1986 and CEO of that company in 1990, a post that he continues to hold.

An agricultural engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Gonzalo Iturriaga specialized in oenology at the E.N.S.A. in Montpellier. He began his professional career at a family winery in Ribera del Duero and was appointed technical director of Bodegas Habla. Before joining TEMPOS Vega Sicilia, he worked as an export manager at Lamothe-Abiet.

In 2015, he took over the technical direction of TEMPOS Vega Sicilia, committed to respecting the philosophy and quality of the house and consolidating the personalities of the regions and wines that make up this family of wineries: Bodegas Vega Sicilia (in Ribera de Duero), Bodegas y Viñedos Alión (in Ribera de Duero), Bodegas y Viñedos Pintia (in the Toro designation of origin), Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild & Vega Sicilia Macán (in the Rioja DOCa), and Bodegas Oremus (in the Tokaj region of Hungary).