Vineyard

HARVEST 2024 AT BODEGAS ALVAREZ ALFARO: A RETURN TO THE NATURAL CYCLE

by gestor | 5 September 2024 | Vineyard, Winery | 0 Comments

At Bodegas Álvarez Alfaro, the 2024 harvest marks a special year for our vineyards in Aldeanueva de Ebro, located in the heart of La Rioja Oriental. Unlike the previous campaign, where the ripening of the grapes was accelerated due to climatic factors, this year the...

VERAISON ARRIVES AT VIÑEDOS ALVAREZ ALFARO

by gestor | 17 July 2024 | Vineyard | 0 Comments

Veraison is one of the most important and fascinating stages in thevineyard's lifecycle,and this period holds special significance for both winegrowers and wine enthusiasts. Veraison is a critical and visually enchanting phase in the grape maturation cycle, marking...

TIME FOR HARVEST

by gestor | 7 September 2023 | Vineyard, Winery | 0 Comments

We go ahead with our regular samplings at our vineyards DOCA RIoja to verify the evolution of the ripeness parameters of the grapes in our different plots. A very important task to allow us to coodinate the beginning of harvest with this continuous monitoring. This...

VERAISON – MAGIC AT THE VINEYARDS IN RIOJA

The more stunning phase of the cycle of the vine , in which the amazing colours of the grapes play...

THE VINE AWAKES – LLORO

It has come that time of the year when the vine plant awakes from it winter lethargy . When...

TIME TO PRUNE

prunning is to reduce the ramifications of the vine to control its natural growth improving crop...

Beginning of 2022 harvest

Past 12th of September we start with the 2022 harvest, firstly with the recolection of the Garnacha white grape variety, which was ready two weeks earlier than the harvest 2021. Despiete a very demanding year as it was this 2022, due to the climatology with extremely...

Elaboration of our wines

The harvestThe process of the elaboration of the red wine starts with the harvest, which is the recolection of the grapes. The wine is born in the vine, with a good work at the vineyars, rigorous controls along the vegetative cycle and constant analysis of the grapes....