Showing posts with label DO Ribera del Duero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DO Ribera del Duero. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Neo winery, wine and music
Following the path of the DO Ribera del Duero, after eating at Roa and taste the delicacies of the province of Burgos, we were heading to Castrillo de la Vega, a town that houses many of the wineries in the Ribera del Duero, but just before through this town and about to enter Aranda del Duero, we find the modern winery that we visited, Neo.
Arte y Vino, a space dedicated to wine, Aranda del Duero, Ana, had told us that the winery could not miss us, in fact, its owners, organizers Sonorama Ribera, were in the process of dismantling this festival music and film that had just celebrated and did not know if they could meet us. Finally we attended Ivan and we take a look at Bodegas Neo, a single winery in the world to combine the wine with a recording studio. .
The winery has everything needed to produce high expression wines and young wines and fresh, the building is very modern and reception is accessed through a gateway, which runs between a small winery fuente. The winery is very functional and are making room stainless steel tanks where the wines are fermented then pass to a modern barrel room, with more than 400 units of French oak, American and Europe Central.
Curiously, in the barrel room, we can find Some come signed by artists from the worlds of music, such as Amaral and others. The rest of the cave has the typical elements of any other (bottling, bottle aging room, offices ,...) and also the recording studio where he could record up to a symphony orchestra.
The wines are made in several ranges from the classics to the most modern, through the varieties that are exported to over 56 countries and trying to adapt to each country in terms of exterior design and product marketing. They also have other ongoing projects that allow them to make wines from other areas of Castilla-Leon, Spain, in each of the DO, as Rueda or the Priorat, which are themselves produced, renting premises and buying the raw materials they control and certify.
At the end we could not prove their wines by the urgency of our visit and they were right in removing the event which was held this weekend at Aranda del Duero. I wait patiently sent me some samples to taste it and comment in this space as Ivan promised.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Ribera del Duero, Casajús Winery
In Quintana del Pidio, a few kilometers of Aranda del Duero (Burgos) is the family farm run by Jose Alberto Calvo Casajús. Following the family tradition and applying modern techniques of development we found Casajús winery in the heart of the Ribera del Duero.
We found a winery that produces its wines from the vines to bottling following a total dedication to making wines that once produced for own consumption, come now to join the select group of wines that are well recognized worldwide Ribera del Duero .
The wines this small winery produces José Alberto, not over 100,000 bottles, but give them all the characteristics of the Tinta del País which is cultivated in the area, and all the wine matured in oak barrels for aging and even a signature wine fermented and aged in large barrels, which is a delight for the senses.
The winery is on the same road of Quintana del Pidio, to the outskirts of town and features a reception, a lounge for tastings, a craft manufacturing with stainless steel tanks, bottling and labeling, and a room of about 200 barrels approximately, where all the wines mature that the winery produces.
I had the opportunity to taste the wine of the author of the 2008 directly from the barrel, a wine produced in 100% the same, with an ingenious system where the barrel rolls over itself, and with a tap to make pumping and fermentation and will foster their own pace.
This was my first visit to the Ribera del Duero and I found a farm which is carried by one person with a very characteristic and traditional wines.
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