The family business in the world of wine

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In the economy of this country, as in the economy of the world of wine, there are a number of companies that call themselves relatives and that although we do not know if this "last name" gives them a plus, but what we are sure is that they offer, to wine lovers, a different vision of this business.

Text: Antonio Egido

In ‘Rionegro.com.ar’ we discovered the history of a family business in Argentina, with the title “El Vino, an export family project” whose story begins: “describing a wine is not the same as living the experience of drinking it. The wine has personality and character; Therefore, the more you know the wine culture, the more this unique drink will be enjoyed. ”They are the words of the renowned sommelier Anneliese von Seranow. It is also part of the art that is breathed in the entrails of a warehouse sights in the city of Cipolletti.

Its owner, Marcelo Miras, is a well -known winemaker in our region. A native of San Rafael, in the province of Mendoza, it settled in the Alto Valle in 1990 to work in Humberto Canale. In 2002 he took over the project to start from scratch the warehouses of the end of the world, where he managed to form a great work team, and where he was an oenology manager until December last year.

Bodega Miras is a dream that was born in 2001. The renowned Danish winemaker Hans Vinding Dier was at that time an advisor at the end of the world and began the elaboration of what would later become Bodegas Noemia. Vinding encouraged to look to launch with a couple of barrels to share with family and friends, and so it began production. By 2005, the pair of barrels had become 6,000 bottles. It was in that year that the whole family joined the project, and the company was formed with the current configuration. Pablo Miras, Marcelo's son is in charge of the commercial area. The production reached 60,000 bottles in 2015 and hope to close this year with more than 100,000 bottles. ”

On the “Vinosamalaparte.es” website we find is a philosophy of life: “The wine must be the reflection of something, simple in itself, that binds us to the earth as the strain is in turn to the ground. The perfection in its elaboration is to ensure that the technique is so integrated in the wine that passes unnoticed and this happens when the hand of the man manages to camouflage himself in the wine in a way They have not touched, respecting natural cycles and value the various effects of weather on the vineyard and respecting them.

When you walk in the vineyard, in a second, you get on the perfume of adventure forever. The aroma of thyme, lavender, rosemary, open field smell, afternoon, hunting and feathers. And how many of those aromas we were in the wine after a spring and a summer of coexistence with the pines, songs, spleen, salvia, thymes, jaras and alwaysvivals.

Penetrating smell jaras in summer. The songs are the inseparable ornament of the mountain, grass of San Juan, which floods the air with its rugged aroma. The splitage, between the Cantales and La Salvia, wonder of virtues, of strong and mountain fragrance, which makes it tasty dressing. Salvia, in the past used to heat and aromar furnaces, is another of the endearing sensations of our field. Pedregal and Window thyme, deep perfume, resinous and essential. The evergreen, delight of grateful palates.

The end of summer is approaching, the shadows of the pines begin to be elongated. It is a vintage time. ”

When we move on to the window of "The Family and the Project", we know something more of this family dedicated to the world of wine and read "Mariano de Frutos always dreamed of producing her own wine in the historic village of Cuéllar. In 1996 she began her dream planting 3.5 hectares of Viñedo Tempranillo in the old vineyard plots of her ancestors.

But it was in 2004 when his dream came true with the birth of the family business, Bodegas de Frutos Marín, and the marketing of the first harvest.

The 2007 harvest is already vinified in the new facilities of the winery.

At present, the winery is directed by Elisa de Frutos, in the commercial area and Rubén Salamanca in the technical area, forming a perfect tandem to achieve wine monitoring and control from the vineyard to its commercial destination, with a clear commitment to respect for the environment, natural cycles, quality and differentiation throughout this process ”.

And finally we stop on the third website that our search engine has offered us, which shows us ‘Economia.elpais.com’ in an article signed by Miguel Ángel García Vega entitled “A family with wine in the veins”, and in which we read that “in the months of the summer, the sun in the hard and brown lands of Valladolid does not hostage. The star falls to lead on people, the stones, the stones, the stones, the stones. Mariano Garcia - one of the most prestigious winemakers in Spain - knows that Castilla is an ungrateful lover for the vines.

Like the great French Châteaux or the mythical Romanée Conti, he knows that he will need more time. "A great winery is a trip of generations," he admits as he looks at the clock. Maybe remember that it all started in 1978 in Tudela de Duero (Valladolid). In those boundaries he conceived, with the Tempranillo grape, a classic of the wine landscape: Mauro. Paradoxes of the geography (or stubbornness of the surveyors), their vineyards were for a few meters outside the designation of origin (D.O.) of Ribera del Duero. However, 37 years later the circle is unchanged and closes. Build a warehouse in the D.O., it opens a target (Mauro Godello 2014) and launches at the end of 2016 a red redness that replicates its most expensive wine: Terreus. At the moment, Mariano García still does not want to venture his name, but we write that in Boca he knows anciently. ”

They are the first examples of family businesses gathered around wine, although the search engine has offered us 673,000 results to our request. Therefore, if you are interested in knowing something else, we recommend time, tranquility and a wine in your hands. Everything will be more pleasant.