Bodegas Emilio Moro
The history of the bodega goes back three generations; Emilio Moro was born into the vitiviniculture environment that surrounded him and grew up treading grapes and racking wine in his native village of Pesquera de Duero, in the province of Valladolid. Years later, after being initiated into the techniques of wine growing by his father, Emilio planted vines on the rest of his land and grafted them with 100 year-old Tinta del Pais.
However, it was not until 1987 when the family decides to sell their wines commercially from a small winery. In 1989 Emilio Moro’s children created the business structure that can be seen today.
In 1998, with the appearance of Malleolus, the standards of Vintage, Reserve and Grand Reserve were eliminated. Since then, each wine has its own name, personality and identity, in order to achieve the highest quality.
Currently, Bodegas Emilio Moro has 200 hectares of its own vineyards, planted and grafted with the excellent clone recovered from its oldest vines, and annual production is around 1,200,000 bottles.
The building has undergone various improvements since the founding of the winery. Currently it is made up of four areas: management, ageing, processing and storage. The ageing area takes up three large rooms, which are both temperature and humidity controlled. There are about 3,000 barrels stored there. The parts of the building allocated to production encompass the vat area, the grape hopper area and the laboratory. The winery has 50 stainless steel vats of different capacities, of which 6 are 5.000 litre vats and are used for the top-end wines. The warehouse is the most recently improved area of the winery, and includes the bottling and labeling area, as well as the bottle rack store, which has capacity of up to 3 million bottles. The facilities are designed to accurately control the traceability of the entire process from production to the wine’s final point of sale.
Websites: www.emiliomoro.com
