As its name indicates, it refers to a wine in which human intervention has been minimal. Therefore, in the elaboration phase the manual manipulations in the winery, such as racking, filtrations, etc. carried out by the winemaker and people in the winery have been the minimum possible.Fermentation has been carried out spontaneously with the yeasts that are present in the skin of the grapes, avoiding the use of selected yeasts. The grapes used for winemaking
El Lagar de Moha is up to today, the first and only biodynamic winery at the DO Rueda.This is a very clear and forceful statement and as a result of it I have been asked quite frequently, why have we become biodynamic? Normally this question is followed by another one, that is, what is really a biodynamic agriculture? I have therefore considered it important to write this blog to clarify these points.Why have we
As a general idea, organic wines have a higher average price than conventional wines. We say in general lines because this premise is not fulfilled in 100% of the cases.Fundamentally, the difference in price is determined by agriculture. On one hand, because the productions that the plant gives in eco are lower and, on the other hand, because the treatments that have to be done in the vineyard are manual.In conventional agriculture, the plant is
Sulfites are a substance derived from sulfur that is produced naturally during the metabolism of yeasts in fermentation. The origin can therefore be natural or added later.Why are sulfites sometimes added to wines?Because they have an antioxidant function, that is, they help the wine not to oxidize and last longer. Because they also have an antimicrobial function, that is, they inhibit the development of microorganisms.According to the legislation, sulphites can be added to all wines:
I acknowledge that reading this article that they have written to us in @revistamivino has been very exciting. It summarizes in a single page and in a very pleasant way a lot of information about our winery. Information as: who are we, what is the social and cultural awareness for us, what are we developing nowadays or what wines we currently have on the market. So I encourage you to read it and leave, if you
A new study from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) has conclusively concluded that
Our vineyard as you know, is an ecological vineyard. Due to this reason, among others, what we are doing is maintaining the vegetal cover.For those who don´t know it, the vegetal cover is, all the plants, herbs that grow on the vineyard soil, especially between the rows. And in spring it is covered with flowers.Our cover is spontaneous, this means that it has been born naturally and has never been sown. Maintaining the cover is
In Lagar de Moha we like to be in permanent movement
Everything that can be reused should be done and only new things should be used when it is necessary.
