VEGA SICILIA | RIBERA DEL DUERO, SPAIN
Pablo Álvarez Mezquiriz 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.
He completed his upper secondary studies at schools in Bilbao and Gijón, graduated in Law from the Centro de Estudios Universitarios de 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.
During the thirty years he has been at the helm of Vega Sicilia, Pablo Álvarez has turned that winery into a unique group of wines that is renowned worldwide. He has notably improved the quality of the wines, restored the vineyards for the future, set up four new wineries – Alión, Pintia, Oremus and Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild Vega Sicilia – and has driven the growth and international expansion of all their brands.
In any event, Pablo Álvarez, a perfectionist who is never satisfied, is often heard capturing that in a nutshell: “The best is still to be done, the best vintage must be the next one”.