WINEMAKING

MANUAL HARVEST

At Vinyes d’Olivardots, we attach great importance to the quality of the grapes we use to produce our wines.

That is why every year, during the harvest period, the entire winery team goes to the vineyards carefully to carry out the harvest manually with scissors. One by one, we cut and make a first selection of the grapes that are in optimal conditions of maturation and health, discarding all those that don’t meet our quality standards.

We delicately place them in 10kg cases that allow us to preserve the integrity of the grapes to ensure that they arrive in the best condition and as quickly as possible at the winery.

TABLE SELECTION

Once the cases of grape arrive at the cellar, we immediately put them in the cold room. This first thermal shock that allows us to have more complexity in its organoleptic profile and increase the hardness of the grain due to its subsequent manipulation on the selection table.

Bit by bit we will pour the grapes into a machine that will make a first selection during the destemming, and grain by grain Vinyes d’Olivardots team will eliminate everything that could affect the quality of our wines.

AGEING IN AMPHORAE

Vinyes d’Olivardots embraces ancient traditions, in 2013, we decided to recover a technique for making, storing and transporting wines typical of the Empordà with more than 3,000 years of history: the use of clay amphorae.

This ancestral practice allows us to connect with the roots of winemaking. The clay provides controlled micro-oxygenation, favoring the aromatic concentration of the wines, maintaining their freshness and highlighting the minerality.

We carry out fermentation and aging for 4 months in our white and rosé wines looking for varietal purity, balance and unctuousness.

AGEING IN BARRELS
and other recipients

After a long fermentation, in which the grapes have been in contact with their skins to achieve an optimal extraction of color, aroma and tannins, we proceed to gentle and respectful.

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The red wines will then be aged between 10 and 18 months in French and Austrian oak barrels of different sizes carefully selected to provide subtle notes of wood that complement and enrich the characteristics of the wine. Meanwhile, a blanc de noirs will do it in a granit egg for a year.

Each drop captures the essence of our passion, dedication and love for the earth, the vineyard and the artisanal winemaking process.

Taste Vinyes d’Olivardots and all our wines

Try the different ranges of wines we produce, from Finca Olivardots with its fruityness, to the origins of Gresa and the single vineyards that characterize us so much!