We started the harvest on August 9 and finished on September 19, with the lowest rainfall data in history with only 60 liters/m2 during the vegetative cycle of the plant. …
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The Elaborador Integral aka Estate Produced and Bottled are the wineries that control the entire production process of their cava, from harvesting to bottling….
Harvest is a magical moment as much as stressful and challenging for the winemakers of the Winery, Maria Elena and Marta. It requires great patience, resistance, and concentration on the part of everyone involved such as who works in the vineyard and the winemakers who works inside the winery. After a long winter of biodynamic…
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Rudolf Steiner’s biodynamic agriculture. Rudolf Steiner, Austrian polymath and the father of biodynamics, said that eating clean foods (those that are free from pesticides and herbicides) helps you to think more clearly, without tension, as well as providing you with a way to find resources and quick alternatives to overcome the obstacles of life. On…
Pruning is what determines the quantity of grapes that the vine will produce – we only leave the branches and shoots that are necessary to produce a balanced yield. Pruning also allows us to determine the lifespan of the vine….
2019 Harvest Diary: A Magnificent Vintage 2nd September, 7am: Start of the Macabeu harvest in Parés Baltà. 11th October, 6pm: We celebrate the last day of an exceptional harvest 2019’s harvest was long and intense – as they all are – as well as very exciting. This year’s vintage is intensely aromatic, giving us wines…
The harvest has just started at Parés Baltà; it is a moment of transformation which always brings with it nerves, pressure, early mornings, and late nights. But the harvest also means excitement, hope, and desire to see how the grape – which nature so generously gives us – becomes must and, later, wine, full of…
At home we are very happy to tell you the viticulture work we have been doing during the last months, just now that we are almost ready to start the harvest, and in the middle of the ripening controls; controls that will allow us to obtain……..
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We have already started to harvest what it will be the next vintages of Parés Baltà wines. Marta Casas and Maria Elena, our winemakers, have fired the starting shot for the Parés Baltà harvest 2018. It is a crazy time. They have to be aware of all that is happening in all of our vineyards…
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