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With an area of approximately 18,000 hectares, DO Navarra
is divided into five sub-areas : Ribera Alta, Ribera Baja,
Tierra Estella, Baja Montana and Valdizarbe. It is one of
the oldest vinicultural Denominations of Origin of Spain,
and today it combines traditional grape varieties including
the autochthonous Garnacha,
Tempranillo,
Graciano
and Viura
together with well-known international grape varieties like
Merlot, Cabernet
Sauvignon and Chardonnay
in order to offer a wide range of excellent quality wines.
Navarra has a continental Mediterranean climate with warm
dry summers which are ideal for a proper maturation of the
fruit and cold winters that are essential to allow the vines
to rest. A season of spring rain ensures the vines receive
enough water to survive the hot, dry summers.
Founded
in 1992 by a group of vinegrowers, Bodegas Piedemonte is a
project looking firmly into the future. It is a very modern
winery equipped with adapted technology and temperature-controlled
stainless steel tanks with a total capacity of 4 million litres.
Situated in the historical city of Olite, the oldest wine
producing area of Navarre, Piedemonte has 450 hectares of
vineyards, distributed in several areas of the subzone region,
Ribera Alta. The geographical zone is named Piedemonte de
Tafalla Olite, a region with an extension between the Pyrenees
and Ribera de Navarra bordered to the east by Mount Uju, and
to the west by the hills of the River Cidacos. Its state of
the art technology allows the viticulturists and oenologists
to control closely the wine production process from the selection
of grapes, their maturation and the fermentation process to
the ageing of its Crianza and Reservas in 4000 French and
American oak barrels. This traditional legacy of the region
along with the latest technology result in elegant wines in
accord with modern trends.
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