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Dominio de Pingus is a Spanish winery located in Quintanilla de Onésimo in the Province of Valladolid with vineyards in La Horra area of the Ribera del Duero region. The estate's flagship wine, Pingus, is considered a "cult wine", sold at extremely high prices while remaining very inaccessible, [1] [2] and commands an average price of $811 per bottle.
The sale of Church properties starting in 1836 led to the disappearance of many monastic communities and the abandonment of vineyards. In the mid-19th century, the phylloxera epidemic arrived in the area and destroyed a large number of vineyards over the course of nearly fifty years.
The vineyard surface of Priorat has been continuously expanding since the Clos-led quality revolution in the 1990s. At the turn of the millennium there was 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of vineyards, with an equal amount of planting rights secured. [3] As of 2018, Priorat had 2,010 hectares (5,000 acres) of vineyards. [1]
This vineyard is still a family-owned business and has expanded to become Grupo Faustino. Other than Faustino itself, the company includes Campillo and Marques de Vitoria also in Rioja; Valcarlos in Navarra; Condesa de Leganza in La Mancha; Bodegas Portia in Ribera del Duero; and Bodegas Victorianas, which offers varietal table wine from across Spain.
Herederos del Marqués de Riscal, S.A., better known as Marqués de Riscal is a large Spanish winery located in Elciego, in the Rioja Alavesa. [1] The company was founded by Camilo Hurtado de Amézaga, 6th Marquess of Riscal in 1858 after inheriting a series of wineries in Elciego from his father.
Torres is the family winery with the most extensive vineyards in the Denomination of Origin (DO) of Penedès [1] and the largest winery in Spain. [2] They also run the Miguel Torres Chile winery in the Chilean Central Valley, and in the United States where in 1986 Marimar Torres founded Marimar Estate.
While traditionally Spanish vineyards would harvest their grapes by hand, the modernization of the Spanish wine industry has seen increased use of mechanical harvesting. In years past, most harvesting had to be done in the early morning with wineries often refusing grapes after mid-day due to their prolonged exposure to the blistering heat.