[1] Gutiérrez began his career as an IT professional and worked as a business management executive in Madrid for more than two decades for the large multinational company, Tetra Pak, while devoting much of his free time to wine.
He is a founding member of elmundovino.com, a wine website published in Spanish, where he has written since its creation in the year 2000.
He was awarded the title Cavaleiro da Confraria do Vinho do Porto in 2004 and received the Spanish National Gastronomy Award for journalism in November 2012 from the Spanish Minister for Tourism.
[3] The Finest Wines of Rioja and Northwest Spain won the 2011 André Simon Special Commendation Award in London.
[4] As a taster, he has won the Spanish blind tasting championship for pairs (with Ignacio Villalgordo) which Vila Viniteca organizes yearly, and he has been a part of the elmundovino.com team which has twice placed second, in 2009 and 2010, in La Revue du Vin de France's European blind tasting championship.