Asturias
Speaker
Beatriz Pérez García
Founding partner of Bodega VidAs (Cangas del Narcea, Asturias)
A founding partner in Bodega VidAs since 2012, she is also the winery's director of exports, production processes, marketing, promotion and sales.
Beatriz Pérez García, born in Pola de Allande, holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Murcia and a degree in the Physics of Materials from the University of Oviedo. When she completed her doctorate, she moved to Asturias and worked as a researcher at the University of Oviedo.
In 2012 she set up a new winery, VidAs, a family project seeking to assist with conservation and development of vitiviniculture in southwest Asturias. The wines produced here are made exclusively with grapes selected among the local varieties - white "Albarín", black "Albarín", black "Verdejo" and Carrasquín.
She was president of the Cangas Wine Protected Designation of Origin for two years, following more than seven on its management board.
