You can find out all the details about how the grapes are harvested at the Valladolid winery.
Autumn arrives in September and October and with it comes the grape harvest. The grape harvest closes out the grape growing season, and after a whole year of work, Bodegas Emilio Moro brings together history, tradition, quality and gastronomy in the grape harvest festival to celebrate the harvest and thank the entire team for their hard work.
The winery located in Pesquera de Duero, which has 11 wines on the market and has reached more than 70 countries, celebrates the end of the harvest by highlighting the effort, tenacity and dedication with which the winegrowers, field assistants, cellar assistants and the technical team, among others, have worked during this campaign.
The Moro family’s objective is the search for excellence, the constant improvement of the quality of its products and to win the hearts of its customers, but if there is one thing they know for sure, it is that their best ambassadors are their collaborators, those who come to the winery every day to give the best of themselves and share this objective.
For this reason, they highlight the figure of all those involved in the form of a series of videos, published on their website, through which users can discover all the details of the grape harvesting process. Several of the winery’s workers give first-hand accounts of their experience and reveal the particularities of one of the most important moments for a winery.
2022, an atypical year of analysis and learning
The climate is a factor that significantly affects the development of the vine, being, after the variety, the factor that most determines the personality of the grape. In this sense, Álvaro Maestro, technical director of Bodegas Emilio Moro, highlights how special the 2022 vintage was. “The year began with normal conditions, typical of Ribera del Duero. It was late spring, coinciding with flower set, when the first heat waves occurred, resulting in one of the hottest late springs and early summers in living memory’. In addition to the high temperatures, which during the months of August and September recovered values more typical of the area, there was also a shortage of water. With the onset of summer, the rains almost completely disappeared for more than 90 days until mid-August when ‘we were able to see how a great storm gave us that water which proved to be the only water support the vines could count on until the harvest, as it didn’t rain again until after the grape harvests’, Álvaro Maestro points out.
Despite the high temperatures and the lack of rain, Bodegas Emilio Moro considers itself privileged because most of its vineyards are located in the páramo, an area where the average temperature is lower and the characteristics of its soils facilitate the water balance. “2022 was a warm and dry year where the plot factor was a determining element,’ explains Maestro. ‘When the climate is limiting, the composition of the soil, the altitude and the age of the vines become determining factors that influence whether the fruit ripens well or not’.
Bodegas Emilio Moro has worked to determine the perfect moment to harvest the grapes, taking advantage of every opportunity to celebrate a great year in terms of quality, concentration, character and personality. ‘We can say that, in terms of quantity, 2022 was not very generous, but we focused on our fundamental objective, which is to offer an excellent wine, and we can say that we have achieved it’, celebrates Álvaro Maestro.
Along with Álvaro Maestro, there are many people involved in this hard but rewarding process. The grape harvest is the key moment when the results of the evolution of the vineyards are revealed. Adrenaline, curiosity, nerves and eagerness are all in the air among the people involved and they are looking forward to the event because, as they themselves say, ‘it’s a new opportunity to make history with our wines’.
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