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Today we´ve been tasting the wines of the vintage 2010 that have been almost 12 months in oak. That´s very useful to choose the barrels for the next year: what are the best cooperages and what kinds of toasting fit better with our wines. You can see a picture in our facebook.

Gorka 16:14 03/02/2012 Comment

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Burgo Viejo Crianza 2007 has been review by Decanter as one of the best Rioja of that vintage. Our wine has been reviewed as "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED" with 4 stars and as one ofe the best values under 13 pounds. You can see the review in March 2012 issue of the magazine (pages 101-102).

Gorka 14:38 01/02/2012 Comment

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It´s normal that after Christmas it´s a quiter time in the wineries. Not this year: we´re really busy bottleling, racking and filling barrels. Concerning the quality of the vintage, now we can have a better perspective: the wines of 2011 are going to be very aromatic, quite structured but with ripe tannins. The analysis of colour give as result that in average the colour of our wines is even higher than in 2010 -the best vintage ever in Rioja-. I have great expectations!

Gorka 07:33 01/02/2012 Comment

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Hi buddies
Last week all my wine tanks finished Malolactic Fermentation, what is the last microbiological fact on winemaking. During fermentations process (on reds alcoholic fermentation to produce alcohol from the sugars, carried on by yeasts, and later malolactic fermentation to produce lactic acid from malic acid carried on by acid lactic bacteria) the winemaker needs to live close to each tank to control everything managing temperatures and all OK parameters evolution. When it's finished we start to work for cleaning the wine with clarifications and filtering, also blending for young wines and wines that we'll age in oak barrels, and of course, bottling! This work is easier to organice than microbiological ones.
Today the wines are in perfect conditions and I'm sure they'll give us a lot of pleasures soon.
On the fields, is time for prunnig. This winter is being really dry in my area so we are able to work outside most of the days and prunning is almost finish.
So, what to do? Is time to get one free-week for the winemaker! Tomorrow I'll fly to the Canarian Islands for one week of good weather and sunny trekking days. I need to "resert" my brain...
My dear friends, I'll answer your posts after 29th that I'll be back working!
Keep enjoying my wines, I also enjoy when I know it from your comments, and I'll be back soon.
Kind regards, Carlos

Carlos 12:22 20/01/2012 Comment

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Last Thursday was the day when the people in Spain receives the Christmas gifts. It seems that last 2011 I was a very good kid, I had lots of gifts XDDD

Gorka 07:24 09/01/2012 Comment