Balbas Barrica (100% Tinto Fino) Balbas Winery was founded in 1777, the same year that work started on the first underground wine cavern marking over 200 years of tradition and four generations dedicated to the noble art of winemaking in the Ribera del Duero. Over 25 years have gone by since Balbas Winery along with a small group of local wineries created and developed what today we know as the Denomination of Origin of The Ribera del Duero. From this moment we have tried and managed to achieve a blend of 200 years of tradition with modern and advanced technology in the elaboration of our wines illustrating the powerful elegant characteristics of our terroir and demonstrating the skills of the great wineries of the region. Source: http://www.balbas.es/en/historia.html.
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Bodegas Estefania
Ribera del Ulver Crianza (100% Mencia) Among small villages sprinkled with slate roofs, some pilgrim route to Santiago discovers a secret that awaits eager to be revealed: A landscape where no time passes. Little vineyards on a of quiet and spiritual beauty. The vines here are older than us, so we should be quiet and listen in silence what they whisper. We are entering into the vineyards of Bierzo region, its grape: the Mencia. The project was based on the restoration of an old dairy in the village of Dehesas in Ponferrada. The remodeling the building tried to combine the stone and slate of Bierzo area with wood, to be in line with traditional architecture in the area. The project’s objective was to give the winemaker all the necessary equipment to make wine in the most pure. Each step of the process has been assigned a place with specific conditions.
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Bodegas Avelino Vegas
Casa de la Vega Rueda Superior 2013 (100% Verdejo) DO Rueda Montespina Sauvignon Blanc 2013 (100% Sauvignon Blanc) DO Rueda Abadia Real Tinto (100% Tempranillo) VT Castilla Leon Abadia Real Blanco (Verdejo/Viura blend) VT Castilla Leon Founded in 1950, Bodegas Avelino Vegas produced its first Verdejo wine in 1964. By 1982 they were granted registration in the Rueda D.O. Certification in Ribera del Duero followed in 1983. By 1999, Avelino Vegas wines were being exported abroad for the first time. For an introduction to the winery and its philosophy, as well as some nice views of the land surrounding it, please see the video below. The video is in Spanish but includes English subtitles. More info: http://avelinovegas.com .
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Bodegas Talai Berri
OREKA (100% HONDARRIBI ZURI) TXAKOLI TALAI BERRI (90% HONDARRIBI ZURI, 10% HONDARRIBI BELTZA) OVERVIEW The Talai-Berri winery is located at Zarautz, one of the towns belonging to “Getariako Txakolina” Guarantee of Origin. Built in 1992, the winery lays on the sunniest slopes of Mount Talai Mendi, surrounded by 12 ha of vineyards. Bixente Eizagirre Aginaga represents the fourth dynasty generation, and his daughters, Itziar and Onditz, the fifth generation making Txakoli out of their vineyards fruits. The Txakoli elaboration relays on the most advanced techniques focused on quality, using boxes for vintage, selection tables, controlled fermentations… These techniques make possible the production of a young and fruity wine. HISTORY Bixente Eizaguirre, son of family with a great wine-production tradition (five generations) and founder of the Talai Berri winery, already had a vast professional career on the wine-production area. After many efforts for achieving the Guarantee of Origin for a product.
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Bodega Vitivinicola del Ribeiro
Viña Costeira (70% Treixadura, 20% Torrontes, 10% Other) Viña Costeira Red (100% Mencia) Colleccion Costeira (100% Treixadura) Lua Jazz Sparkling (100% Treixadura) Pazo Licor de Hierbas Pazo Licor de Cafe Pazo Crema de Orujo Viña Costeira was founded in 1968, as the result of the illusion of a group of visionaries and rebels who broke with the wine trends of the time, in order to recover the historical grape varieties of Galicia: Loureira, Godello, Albariño and Treixadura, among others. From the very beginning, tradition and innovation have always been present in Viña Costeira, and the combination of these two factors is which now consolidates us as a solid reference in the Galician wine scene. Our wines are located in the Galicia’s oldest Designation of Origin and probably one of the oldest in Europe:Ribeiro; situated in the basins of the Miño River and its tributaries Arnoia and Avia, Ribeiro is a territory where the hot.
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Bodega Sanlucar de Barrameda
Cavas Masachs
Cava Blanca Brut Reserva (70% Macabeo, 15% Xarello, 15 Parrellada) Cava La Pasion (36% Parrellada, 34% Xarello, 30% Macabeo) ROOTS It was at the turn of last century when the Masachs family started to cultivate grapes in their estate located in Vilafranca del Penedès, a wine area par excellence, where the growing of grapes had already been introduced in times of the Roman Empire. D. Josep Masachs Llorach, a man with strong convictions, great character and dedicated since his childhood to the growing of grapes, founded Cavas Masachs within the decade of the twenties producing cava in the best tradition of craftsmanship and with a limited production, meant basically, for his own consumption and to make it known to his closest friends. Later, his son, D. Josep Masachs Juvé, went on with his father’s job under the same policy of very limited production and craftsmanship combined with hard work with.
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