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During these days of lockdown, we’re all looking for activities to occupy ourselves and make the time we have to spend at home more enjoyable. Thanks to the various digital platforms, many people are taking advantage of this free time to learn or practise lots of different things. Many of you are trying your hand at sport, learning a new language, cooking and making new recipes (don’t miss the recipes from Taller!) or checking out online tastings of your favourite wines (Reserva, Crianza or La Planta). Today, we here at Bodegas Arzuaga have something new to offer you. While it isn’t possible to visit and discover the vineyards in person for now, what about learning about the vine life cycle from home?
As you know, at Arzuaga, we like you to have fun with our wines, but also to find out more about them. That’s why, through our social media, we’d like to share with you the different processes that enable us to get the highest quality from the raw material we work with: the grapes.
Each growing practice is influential and decisive in ensuring that the quality of the grapes is as we expect at Arzuaga when it comes time to harvest. For this reason, today we’d like to invite you to have a look at our YouTube channel, where the Bodegas Arzuaga vineyard team will tell you about the different processes that take place in our vineyards all year round.
So, explaining it in chronological order starting from the beginning of the year, Bodegas Arzuaga’s vine-growing manager, Jorge Sánchez, will show you what pruning consists of, how we do it in our vineyards and why it’s important for grape quality. After pruning, there’s a very strange process you’ll also discover on our channel: vine weeping. A few weeks later, green pruning takes place after winter pruning. Do you know what that entails? And can you picture how we plant the new vines?
Focusing on the grapes, we go back to Jorge Sánchez to get a first-hand look at veraison, that magic moment when the red grapes change colour. And just a few weeks later we reach the key moment when we reap the rewards of a year’s work that will go into making our wines: the harvest. Ignacio Arzuaga will talk you through what we look for in the grapes at Bodegas Arzuaga and how we carry out the important harvest process.
Then, after the grapes are harvested, the vine’s life cycle begins again, the leaves turn shades of brown and yellow in autumn until the branches become bare: autumn has arrived in the vineyard.
We’ve had to pause and stay home, but the vines are continuing on their journey… Discover it through our videos!