Gaining Ground

Bodegas Juan Gil has become a Spanish wine powerhouse under the guidance of the family's fourth generation

Gaining Ground
From their home base in Jumilla, brothers Miguel (center) and Angel Gil Vera (right) and nephew Juan Gil Costa helm a family wine company that branches across Spain. (Thilo Weimar)
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From the Jun 15, 2019, issue

In 2001 Miguel Gil Vera left his job as an aerospace engineer to restore his family's wine business in Jumila, Spain. Today, it is clear the gamble paid off handsomely. Now the Gil family has reimagined its historic wine company, Gil Family Estates, and is expanding across Spain.

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