They belong to a generation of viticulturists and winemakers with clear ideas; a group of women and men linked to viticulture and winemaking that advocates for the recovery of the great historic Spanish vineyard. A new vision of the field that seeks to value its landscapes and recognize the people who work to maintain and preserve them for future generations.
Founded in 2017, Futuro Viñado is made up of 16 wineries from all over the national territory, including two from Castilla y León: Dominio del Águila (Ribera del Duero) and Dominio del Bendito (Toro). Together they add up their work in 50 municipalities, 63 places, 854 plots, 766 hectares of vineyards and cover 47 grape varieties to make a total of more than 96 different wines. They directly employ 180 people and their wineries and vineyards are distributed in the vicinity of 12 rivers, 25 streams, 23 mountains, an ocean, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean and Cantabrian seas.
Today they put an end to a two-day virtual meeting under the title Mediterranean Mosaic, with which they intend to give value to the Mare Nostrum territory, a natural space with an enormous biodiversity, unique in the world. During the two days, great connoisseurs of different disciplines such as geology, biodiversity, landscape and viticulture, have disclosed the value of various territories in the Mediterranean area, analyzing their situation from different perspectives. Biodynamic agriculture, the recovery of animal traction in field work, the recovery of ancient cereals, the co-planting of fruit trees and vineyards or the conception of the winery as a total farm have been some of the topics that have been on the table. . “The implication in these times is to try at least to maintain what we have now, our legacy, not to make it worse than it is,” says Jorge Monzón, from Dominio del Águila (Ribera del Duero). This young viticulturist advocates the enhancement of each seem, each type of soil, each orientation in the complete clilo of the grape. “The world is hungry for those little nuances, for that craft,” he affirms emphatically. A task that, in his opinion, requires bureaucratic and administrative simplification for the people who work in the fields.
The objective of these meetings is simple and at the same time involves many efforts and difficulties: the premise of leaving a better world for future generations. For this, the association proposes and executes joint activities focused on research, dissemination and the generation of debate around issues such as generational change in the field, qualified labor in agriculture, fertilization of the land, maintenance life in soils, the genetics of grape varieties, the transformation of the profile of the wine producer and other issues related to the social environment, ecology, technology, research and agents involved in the wine market, conceiving the sector as a whole that interacts and connects with the rest of society and production dynamics. The next meetings of Futuro Viñado will revolve around Galicia and La Rioja.
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