The 2024 harvest in La Rioja, the beginning of the new vintage of Cornelio Dinastía.

José María Pangua, winemaker at Bodegas Cornelio Dinastía, began the harvest in the vineyards of Los Planillos with some words that define the hard work of the professionals who live the pulse of the land every day, ‘this harvest is a clear indication of when things have to be done right, The last rains have fattened the grape berry, which means that now the pulp to skin ratio is much higher, although we still expect to have a good harvest’. Data from the Regulating Council stated in mid-October that 274 million kilos of grape had been harvested, which indicates that it will be scarcer than in 2002, when 284 million kilos were harvested with 12,000 fewer productive hectares. In short, it has been a poor harvest, lower than what was initially reported.

Pangua commented at the end of the harvest ‘the grape harvest has been different in each vineyard, where more water has fallen the grapes have been touched a little, in Cornelio we managed to pick them on time, some vines could not be used for what we wanted, but in general the harvest went quite well. In Vega Vella it was more complicated, as they are organic, less protected, and then the rains were a bit more intense in this area which is not used to receiving so much water, the harvest has been a bit fairer, we are still in the winemaking process, but we hope to make good wines, we have harvested 54,000 kilos of red grapes and 14,000 of white grapes’.

In this context, the value of organic farming continues to be the path of Bodegas Cornelio Dinastía in its vineyards cultivated in the lands of Toloño, Sierra Cantabria, where the octogenarian Viura variety is born, with which its great white wines are made, to satisfy the constant growth of the demand for quality white wines in our country and in the world. A variety born under the protection of an Atlantic climate with Mediterranean influence, which likes cold winters, summers with warm days and cool nights that allow the correct phenolic maturity.

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