Canción de Pesquera para el Señor Alejandro
Bits & Pieces from MWS' Great Spanish Wine Adventure: Song of Pesquera for Gentleman Alejandro
Earlier this month Jessica Bell of MWS co-led a week long trip through Spain's most awe-inspiring wine regions, which included a stop at the legendary Pesquera bodega in Ribera del Duero. While there, the gang was treated to not only an impromptu fiesta at Alejandro Fernandez's hilltop casita, but a very special song from the "King of Tempranillo" himself. MWS contributor and Spanish wine super-fan, Emily Crichton, will have more on this delightfully unexpected event and other trip details in the near future. Until then, we thought you could enjoy the words to Alejandro's song. Readily available wine and loved ones highly recommended!
Canción de Pesquera para el Señor Alejandro
(Song of Pesquera for gentleman Alejandro)
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Después de un año de no ver Pesquera Porque el trabajo me lo impidió, me lo impidió Subí al cotarro de las bodegas Y en aquel alto feliz fui yo, feliz fui yo |
After a year without seeing Pesquera Because my work didn’t let me, didn’t let me, I went up to the cellars on the hilltop And how happily I went, how happily I went |
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Y ay que placer que sentía yo Cuando Jacinto levanto el jarro y me saludo |
And oh what joy I started to feel When Jacinto raised his winejug and greeted me |
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Señor Alejandro, señor Alejandro, Vamos a bajar, vamos a bajar, A ver ese vino, a ver ese vino, Que hay en el carral |
Señor Alejandro, Señor Alejandro, Let’s go down the hill, down the hill, And have a look at that wine, that wine, That sits in the barrel |
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No siento el tinto, no siento el tinto que se bebió, Siento el clarete, siento el clarete que me emborracho, Buenas bodegas, bellas bodegas que pena me da. Tener que irme, tener que irme a la ciudad |
I can’t feel, I can’t feel the red that’s been drunk, I feel the clarete, I feel the clarete that’s made me drunk, Good bodegas, beautiful bodegas, how sad I feel, To have to return, to return to the city |
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Señor Alejandro, señor Alejandro, Vamos a bajar, vamos a bajar, A ver ese vino, a ver ese vino, Que hay en el carralllllll |
Señor Alejandro, Señor Alejandro, Let’s go down the hill, down the hill, And have a look at that wine, that wine, That sits in the barrellll |
1 El cotarro de las bodegas is a special feature in Pesquera village where the villagers used to go up to the hill and to the underground cellars there and share their roast lamb and wines of the village on a Sunday. Alejandro says that’s where we learned how to make wine
2 Clarete is a particular Spanish style of red lightened by up mixing it with white, producing a wine similar in style to a rose (and of course in Alejandro’s world it’s never the red that makes you drunk)
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