First written evidence of the existence of this Duero estate refers to its founder, the Franciscan monk Pedro de Villacreces, from whom it takes its name. Together with a group of other clerics, including San Pedro Regalado (the patron saint of Valladolid), he established a monastery in this wonderful spot as a place to pray and grow crops. There was a little vineyard for their own use and for the monasteries nearby.
For some centuries Vill...
Villacreces covers 110 hectares, 64 of them under vines. It stands on a meander of the Duero River, in the heart of the Ribera del Duero’s “Golden Mile”. The estate is divided into 15 plots of Tinto Fino, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, amongst century-old pine trees. These contribute to both the beauty and the ecology of the vineyards.
Finca Villacreces is a single estate which benefits from the wide variety of soils found within it. These ...
Situated in the heart of the estate, the bodega is designed to combine respect for its environment with the utmost attention to detail in the meticulous winemaking process.
This process begins on the two-stage reception table, first with the selection of individual bunches by hand, followed by a process called mistral, which sorts the berries by means of a jet of air.
Each vineyard plot is vinified separately, either in small fermenation...
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