Know more about the harvest

Thursday October 17th, 2019 / /

Grape is the main resource used for the wine elaboration, and as it is a fruit, it has to be collected. To this certain action, it is better known as harvest. Therefore, the harvest is the grape collect which will be key for wine making. The harvest origins take place a thousand years ago, there […]

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Altos de Rioja, the winemaker cellar

Monday October 7th, 2019 / /

Altos de Rioja, a singular boutique style winemaker cellar, founded in 2006 in Rioja Alavesa with the main objective of creating modern Rioja wines. This objective is materialized in some very high quality wines that equilibrates terroir with the last technical advances. The origins of this company was possible thanks to the friendship and union of […]

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INFLUENCING FACTORS ON THE WINE

Wednesday March 7th, 2018 / /

WHAT DETERMINES ITS QUALITY We can define 4 factors of influence that will determine the qualtity of a wine. Variety of grape Climate Ground Terroir   VARIETY OF GRAPE It is said that there are more than 10,000 grapes around the world. Not all of them are cataloged and valid to produce wine. Table grapes […]

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SPANISH WINE IN NUMBERS

Tuesday February 20th, 2018 / /

Spain is the first wine producer by surface of the world, according to the OIV, with vineyards that cover more than 1M hectares of the country. Let´s think that the Europe Union has a surface close to 3,3M, and that all over the world the vineyard surface is around 7,5M hectares. As a curiosity, it […]

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THE WINE IN SPAIN: PART OF OUR CULTURE AND HISTORY.

Tuesday January 16th, 2018 / /

The origin of wine in Spain dates from the first plantations in the year 3,000 B.C. with the arrival of the Phoenicians to our lands, although the first crops did not begin until 1100 B.C. in the area of ​​what is now Cádiz, on the western Andalusian coast. Throughout the time of the Roman Empire […]

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WINE HISTORY

Thursday September 7th, 2017 / /

Wine and Humanity Wine has been and will be part of man’s own history and culture as one of the first creations of humanity. The ancient historians considered the origin of wine in Prehistory. We could think of wine as one of the first discoveries about chemical reactions, even if they were casual or spontaneous. […]

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