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Bodegas
Viña Solorca, founded in 1998, own vineyards extending
to 70 hectares, located in the heart of DO Ribera del Duero,
in Roa. One of the family’s descendants, D. Víctor
Balbas Arroyo, is today the owner and general manager, and
María Carmen Alba, his oenologist, is responsible for
the care of the vinification and ageing of the wines.The soil
is typical of the Ribera del Duero plateau with a mix of gravel,
clay and limestone. Great importance is placed on the work
in the vineyard with controlled yields through careful crop
thinning in June. The vines, cultivated both in low bush and
trellised on wires, are all Tempranillo,
known locally as Tinta del País, and have an average
age of 40 years. The winery vinifies 700,000 kgs of pampered,
very carefully selected, hand-picked grapes. Tradition merges
with the highest technology during the vinification where
rigorous quality control and continuous investigation set
the working guidelines. The cellar contains small, stainless
steel vats, each one destined to receive the grapes of a particular
plot or a different age which are vinified separately depending
on the ripeness of the grapes or age of the plot as well as
the soil in which the grapes are grown. The free run wine
is racked into new French and American oak barrels (about
800) where ageing takes place. The skins are pressed in a
high quality pneumatic press to produce a press wine which
is often added to the free run wine. It is fined with egg
white and submitted to a light filtering before bottling.
We are Bodegas Viña Solorca's appointed UK agents for
the Zarús wines.
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