![]() BODEGAS VITULIA Bodegas Vitulia and their XI Century underground wineries are situated in Aranda De Duero (Castille and León, Spain), land of historic wines, which lies in the heart of the DO Ribera Del Duero. We are a large traditional family winery, where our Winemaker is provides the most modern methods to produce a high quality wine. We provide grape testings in the vineyards in order to harvest a select group of grapes “by hand”. The grapes arrive at our instalations in small baskets weighing around 10 kg to protect them, and undergo a process of cooling in industrial fridges. After this step we choose the best grapes for our selection table, directly after the grapes move on to the elevated belt to pass through destemmer, to remove the stems just in the mouth of the tank to prevent oxidations. In the tanks we use nitrogen for a better fermentation and maceration process, and following our forefathers we use a smooth vertical press. ![]() 彼度丽酒庄: BODEGASVITULIA (彼杜丽酒庄)属于九世纪地下酒庄,位于西班牙卡斯蒂亚,这是一块具有悠久历史的葡萄酒产区,位于杜埃罗河岸中央区地带,我们是一个庞大的传统家族酒庄,酿酒师拥有最现代的方法来生产葡萄酒,酒庄的宗旨很明确,保护位于杜埃罗河岸的优质葡萄园。 为了能得到最好的葡萄酒,我们对葡萄的品种进行了严格的筛选,收获了一批特别优质的葡萄品种。在采集葡萄的筐中都放置了约10公斤的保护装置,自带工业冰箱冷却系统。在工人采摘处最好的葡萄后,直接通过高架皮带送去机器去梗,去茎,然后存入罐中防止氧化。之后又贮存在坦克桶(放置葡萄酒发酵的专用桶)利用氮气使得可以更好的发酵和浸渍,并根据传统的方法再进行垂直的压力。贮存的橡木桶是含70%法国橡木和30%的美国橡木,这增加了我们的葡萄酒口味的复杂性和高雅的品味,彼度丽酒庄希望能一直为您和您的亲朋好友提供高质的葡萄酒,让您尽享杜埃罗河岸所生产的彼度丽的味道。 |
D.O. RIBERA DEL DUERO
The art of winemaking in the Ribera del Duero.
The story of the Ribera del Duero has run in parallel with the union of vine and wine, the fruit of the varieties that stud its landscape, the personality of its people and their culture.
We have to go back no more than 2,000 years to find the first reference to winemaking in the zone: a Roman mosaic of 66 square metres, considered the largest piece bearing Bacchic allegories of the Peninsula, that was discovered in Baños de Valdearados during the grape harvest of 1972.
The Designation of Origin as we know it today, came out of the initiative of a series of vine-growers and winemakers wanting to improve the vineyards and wine quality of Ribera del Duero.
The first Minutes in the archives of the Regulatory Council date from 23 July 1980, from which date that Organism came into being with a provisional nature.
Two years later, on 21 July 1982, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food awarded the Designation of Origin to Ribera del Duero and approved its first Regulations.
From then, the implementation of new growing practices, the introduction of the most modern technologies into winemaking, and the rigorous control processes applied by the Regulatory Council, have made Ribera del Duero a synonym of quality.
A surprising and singular natural setting has delighted in offering us unique conditions. Unexpected and extreme contrasts that, joined to the work and skill of our people, have created an exceptional grape.
This is how the miracle happens in the Heart of the Duero. 115 kilometres of riverbank where wines as unique and inimitable as our environment are crafted.
Climatological conditions
The specific climatological conditions that characterise vine-growing in the Ribera del Duero have a great influence throughout the vegetative cycle of the vines, playing a fundamental role in the development of the plant and ripening of the grape. To a great extent, the quality of the drinks obtained depends on those special conditions.
The climate of the Ribera del Duero area is characterised in broad terms by moderate to low rainfall (400-600 mm average annual rain) that, together with its dry summers and long, rigorous winters and sudden temperature changes throughout the year, is of a Mediterranean type whose primordial feature is continentality.
Geological characteristics
The Ribera del Duero is within the great northern meseta of the Iberian Peninsula, made up of a a large, ancient plinth scored and partly covered by Tertiary sediments. Most of the volume of these sediments is made up of more or less lenticular layers of silty or clayey sand, and the alternation of layers, both of limestones and marls and even of calcareous concretions, is a notable feature.
The river basin, formed during the Miocene, displays gently rolling horizontal levels limited by differential erosion, and today converted into peneplain. The relief of the zone ranges between interfluvial zones with peaks of 911 metrres, and valleys from 750 to 850 metres in altitude.
Grape Varieties: Tempranillo, Cabernet-Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Garnacha Vieja and Albillo
The intense cold delays the budding of the vine. The sudden changes of temperature between day and night in summer yield the perfect balance for the fruit while ripening. A grape of magnificent quality is collected in autumn. The maximum production per hectare accepted by the regulations is 7000 kilogrammes, and grapes from plots whose yields are above this authorised limit cannot be used in protected by the Ribera del Duero Denomination of Origin.
DO Ribera Del Duero has been in 2012 “THE BEST WINE REGION IN THE WORLD”