Legaris Winery

The Vineyards

Legaris has a total of almost 100 hectares of vineyards spreading over two estates located in the municipalities of Curiel de Duero and San Martín de Rubiales.

The first vine stock was planted in 1999. The Legaris vineyard grows the varieties of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and Cabernet Sauvignon. The winery is committed to high quality raw materials and viticulture: uniformity among vines, healthy plants, limited plant growth, small clusters and berries, concentration of colour and aromatic precursors.

The winery´s viticultural team carries out strict biological controls to ensure plants and selected rootstock are virus-free. To complement the winery´s own grapes, it also chooses grapes and plots from local suppliers.

As this zone is located at the limit of the vine-growing area, it´s important to use grapes from a range of different zones in the Ribera de Duero as it would be too risky to concentrate production in just one area. As a result, the final wines gain in complexity, employing different training systems for the vines (goblet and trellis) and a range of vine ages and soil types.

D.O. Ribera del Duero

The Duero River forms the heart of a wine-producing area that is 115 km long and 35 km wide. At an altitude of between 700 and 800 metres above sea level, the Designation of Origin or D.O. of Ribera del Duero is close to the limit for vine-growing, resulting in the characteristic intensity of its wines whose predominant grape variety is the traditional Tinto Fino.

One crucial factor that sets Ribera del Duero wines apart is the region´s exceptional climate. With a moderate to low rainfall, its continental climate provides great contrasts: long dry summers with temperatures up to peaks of 40ºC help the grapes to achieve the optimum polyphenol level, whereas the winters are long and harsh, with minimum temperatures sometimes falling to -15ºC, hail and sleet. The marked difference between day and night-time temperatures during ripening encourages concentration, with frost being the main risk factor for the vines.

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