SALGÜERO

Salgüero means willow and gives its name to one of our estates. But the decision to name this range Salgüero came much later. We can say that the project started in 2016, although we didn’t know it yet. That year we began a journey of learning traditional winemaking methods. We started to vinify in clay jars, as was done in the past, crushing the grapes by foot, using manual methods to transfer them to the vats, using paddles to stir the mash, without temperature control and with a lot of enthusiasm and eagerness. And we liked so much what the clay contributed that we launched one of the most iconic wines of the winery: El Buen Alfarero, the germ of what our wines represent today and a unique stamp of the winery’s identity.

From there, with the jars as a base, we began to work with very long aging processes both in clay and in barrels, seeking to push our terroir, varietals, and winemaking methods to the limit, achieving complexity and authenticity in each of the projects. Why focus on red wines if we had a spectacular base for rosé to “play” with? Why not dare with an Orange Wine in Ribera del Duero? Why not age in jars and barrels?

Were we in a hurry? No. We just had to cultivate patience, the kind that tends to be scarce in a time when the culture of immediacy prevails.