Dionisos
is one of the first ecological/organic producers in Spain. Besides
their high quality wines they also produce gourmet olive oil and
vinegar. To share their enthusiam for good wine and food they
enjoy opening their winery for visitors. You can spend a very
special day with Dionisio and his team visiting the winery, enjoying
a commented wine tasting with a matching meal paired with their
wines. Even wine tasting courses can be arranged.
The
family tradition of elaborating wines goes back three generations;
wines in which the ancient mule drivers would sell the wines in
goat skins that were transported by bands of mules and donkeys.
The history of prizes and achievements highlights the Silver Medal
to the white and red wines of the 1928 vintage in the Universal
Expo of Barcelona in 1930.
In 1984 the father of the actual owner makes the first biological
agriculture wine with his own harvest grapes. Dionisio de Nova
Garcia since 1995 has been in charge of the winery and has redone
the vineyards and improved the winery's installations. Since the
harvest of 2000 his son Carlos de Nova Torres has begun elaborating
in order to ensure the continuity of the winery. They have initiated
a diversification process toward other productions in order to
complement their other crops; grape and olive. Their objective
is based on the profound respect for the varietals and the local
conditions in order to improve combined technologies in the defense
of the environment and the biological qualities of the elaborated
products.
The
vineyard and olive groves are biologically cultivated with the
use of natural and no chemical additive fertilizers and with products
for protection of crops according to the European regulations.
The vineyard, which occupies 25 has, has a loamy lime soil very
apt for grape farming due to its great drainage qualities and
for the lime outcrop that facilitates the aging. This enables
to create ideally natural conditions for the developing of the
vine with rusticity that is later traduced in peculiar aromas
and Mediterranean plumpness. Grape varieties grown are tempranillo
and cabernet sauvignon, in red, and arien and macabeo in white.
The olive variety is comezuelo.
Is situated in an ancient house of the eighteenth century where
the advantages of the wide mud walls and the clay vats coexist
with modern technology. The fermentation and decantation with
temperature control assures fresh and clean grape must. The bottling
division has the best preparation and packaging technology.
The
aging chamber isolated by the wide mud walls in the subsoil of
an excavated cave grants the necessary quietude, temperature and
humidity conditions for the process of the aging of our wines
and vinegars. In other conditioned areas, the tabletop olives
are un-bittered and the sweet desserts are elaborated.