Vineyard
Bodegas Abadía San Quirce owns a total of 21 hectares of vineyards growing the Tinta Fina variety in the municipal areas of Aranda de Duero and La Aguilera.
Bodegas Abadía San Quirce owns a total of 21 hectares of vineyards growing the Tinta Fina variety in the municipal areas of Aranda de Duero and La Aguilera. It also controls another 80 hectares of the same variety, distributed between the towns of Gumiel de Izán and La Aguilera. Grapes are obtained from all of them to produce our wines, enabling us to have full knowledge and control over the vineyard throughout its growth cycle and allowing us to constantly monitor the quality of the grapes and their optimal state of ripening before their arrival in the winery.
The entire vineyard is planted with goblet-pruned vines, the traditional growing method in this region. The ages of the vines in this vineyard range from the youngest at 25 to more than 100 years old, from prephylloxera vines planted in 1900. As this is such an old vineyard, it has been divided into numerous plots with different types of soils (sandy, limestone, loamy-clay). This means that we can obtain grapes that are totally different from one another, despite being the same variety, because of the character their particular terroir gives them.
Ancient vineyards
The grapes are selected in the field and picked by hand.
The average planting density is between 1,500-2,500 vines per hectare. With all this, we achieve a production per hectare of between 2,000 and 4,000 kilos of grapes. We can obtain up to 1,000 kg per hectare in the oldest vineyards, which is practically one or two bunches of grapes for every vine.
All pruning and harvesting tasks are done by hand. During the picking season, a thorough selection process is performed out in the field to identify the grapes that will go to the winery.
