n the oldest family document found to date you can read, “In the Villa de Gumiel de Mercado on the twenty-sixth day of the month of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty.” It includes the capitulation after the marriage of Cathalina de Abajo and Alejo Ruiz, both located in line with the ninth generation of Rodrigo and Asier's relatives, dedicated to the viticulture of Gumiel de Mercado. Where a vineyard is reflected in the area of ??Las Parras in Gumiel de Mercado with six hundred vines. In addition to a vat with its floor and entrance into the vat, they call the Olma with a capacity of one hundred and thirty jugs.

CASA LEBAI is the most personal project of Rodrigo and Asier Calvo. With Asier's return in 2015 after making wine in Oregon (Bodegas Abacela) and thus finishing his studies in oenology, he assumed, together with Rodrigo, the technical direction of the Family Winery, they carried out a in-depth study of the area to classify the vineyard by clones, zones, soils and orientation, with which begins the concern to try to express the typicality of each place and all this gives rise to that word that is so popular at home “ZONING” from the Gumiel de Mercado vineyard.

CASA LEBAI · VIGNERONS SINCE 1780 · GUMIEL DEL MERCADO

Of the 32 estates that make up the family vineyard, three are chosen for their age, typical soils and behavior in winemaking, each one has a character and personality that makes them different from the rest, with production methods that try to imitate what that family members did at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the 2019 vintage, CASA LEBAI was born, with the main objective of preserving the wine heritage in Gumiel de Mercado. As the project progresses, it moves to a second level, also encompassing the recovery of family historical documents (currently reaching the 9th generation). with wine-growing links) and conservation of historic winepresses and wineries from the 13th-14th century.