
Bodegas Navarro López produces wines of Denomination of Origin Valdepenas, D.O.C. Rioja, land wines of Castilla, table wines in bottles, bag-in-boxes.
Bodegas Navarro López is located in Valdepeñas in southern Castilla La Mancha. The company specialises in making quality, mono-varietal and oak-aged wines to meet the needs of the growing contemporary market.
The winery was founded in 1904 by Don Juan Megia Sánchez. It continued through various generations of his family until it was bought by the current owner, Don Doroteo Navarro Donado, who began an ongoing process of modernisation. The commercial success of this project has allowed the winery to grow and the company to expand by acquiring new businesses such as Bodegas Cañadas (purchased in 1990) and Bodegas Nieto de Enrique Nieto (purchased in 1993). The yearly production of the winery has grown from about 160.000 litres when the winery started to more than eight million litres of mainly red wine today.
In the vineyards (150 ha), the company cultivates the most famous grape in Spain, Tempranillo, and also some Cabernet Sauvignon, the white Macabeo and the most prevalent white variety in this region, Airén.
New fermentation techniques have worked wonders and the new generation of wines offer exceptionally well-balanced combinations of bright, supple fruit, carefully improved by delicate aromas of American and French oak. There are four types of red wine, classified following the minimum ageing system of vino joven, crianza, reserva y gran reserva.
The best grapes are selected and then converted into grape juice. The fermentation process takes place under strictly controlled conditions of stability and temperature. The sugar in the grape becomes alcohol and carbonic acid. Then, the oak barrels do their work, according to the age-old tradition: time and silence will shape the virtues of the wines in the cellars. Once bottled, the wines perfect the qualities that nature gave them.
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