The reality of this project is forged between the stone walls of the Convent of las Claras, in Peñafiel.
The Doctor Agronomist José Carlos Álvarez and his project decide to materialize the history and geology of the Ribera del Duero in wine. The experience accumulated in the Ribera del Duero over many years, is combined to convey the expressiveness of the Tempranillo grape. Fine Tinto.
History, tradition, innovation and wisdom.
Bodegas Convento de las Claras selects, for the elaboration of its wines, the soils and vineyards of exceptional quality of the Ribera del Duero.
The only grape variety used for our wines is Tempranillo. We firmly believe in its winemaking potential as a unique and representative variety of the Ribera del Duero.
The selection of vineyards is carried out in accordance with soil studies that, after decades of years, have produced wines of the highest quality, with the sole purpose of expressing the terroir of each of them, brought to the maximum exponent after processing.
This selection of vineyards between 30 and 90 years old, with very low yields, located at altitudes above 850 meters, with a sustainable viticulture and respectful with the environment, results in wines of the highest quality.
The páramos are extensive, flat surfaces, constituted by horizontal limestone strata, subjected to processes of karstification. These occupy the north-eastern margin of the basin, with enclaves west of Valladolid and south of the Duero.
On the limestones of the páramo, red soils have been developed which, due to the mixture of horizons and decalcification, have become patterned. The largest extensions correspond to evolved soils, with alkaline pH and high proportion of carbonates. They correspond to calcium and chromic luvisols in which the processes of decarbonation, flushing and illuviation can be observed.
If the evolution is smaller, calcareous cambisols and, to a lesser extent, chromic and ecutric cambisols are found. If they have hardly evolved or there has been a regression there are relic leptosols.
Constitute the slope of the páramos and represent the transit between limestone wastelands and detrital countryside. The slope facies represent the maximum extension of marginal lacustrine facies, characterized by marls, gypsum and clays in the lower levels and calcareous marls and marly limestones in the upper ones. In these facies the soils are represented by calcic and gypsic regosols. On marls and limestones more evolved soils can be found: like the calcareous and ecutric cambisols.
During the Quaternary, the main river courses have left a large number of terraces.
In the lower terraces are undeveloped profiles, often Cambois.
In the upper terraces appear luvisols (calcic or chromic) and, less frequently, acrisols and planooles.
These profiles usually undergo processes of decarbonation, flushing and illuviation.
In the vegas of the Duero and its tributaries are fluvisols.
Fluvisols are the most fertile soils in the basin.
The fluvisols that reach greater extension are the eútricos, located in the tertiary depression of the Duero. Calcareous fluvisols are found in the limestone paramos, and in those that run through acidic siliceous rocks, dorsal fluvisols.
The term Luvisol derives from the Latin word "luere" which means to wash, referring to the washing of clay from the upper horizons to accumulate in a deeper area. The Luvisols are mainly developed on a wide variety of unconsolidated materials such as glacial, wind, alluvial and colluvial deposits.
They predominate in flat areas or with mild slopes of temperate, cold or warm climates, but with a dry season and a wet one, like the Mediterranean climate.
The profile is of type ABtC. On the argic horizon can appear an albic, in this case they are intergrados towards the albeluvisoles. The wide range of original materials and environmental conditions, give a great diversity to this Group.
Calcium Luvisol: with a calcic horizon or concentrations of secondary carbonates between 50 cm and one meter deep. There are three modalities:
Hypercalcic. The calcium horizon has at least 50% calcium carbonate equivalent.
Hypocalcic. It only has concentrations of secondary carbonates in the first meter of soil.
Orticálcic. It has a calcic horizon in the first meter.
The alluvial soils are soils of fluvial origin, little evolved although deep. They appear in the vegas of the Duero and its tributaries.
Fluvisols are soils with a poorly developed profile, formed by materials transported by water currents.
They are formed by round gravels, sand, clays and brown and gray silts.
They are hot floors with good drainage.
In the plains of alluvial soil, the millennial drag of sediments, silts and clays dragged from the slopes by the runoff waters are conjugated.
They are mostly of a frank texture, with a silty tendency and sometimes very rich in clay in depth. They are found in the flood plains of the Duero.
Being formed by sedimentary materials transported, of fluvial origin, they are characterized by strong vertical variations, due to seasonal or periodic alterations of the fluvial regime, which in the same soil can originate fine or coarse sediments.
Due to this, they are characterized by a textural heterogeneity, which indicates the successive phases of the alluvium.
They are outcrops of carbonated formations.
They are clay-calcareous soils, with the advantage of sponging in winter to receive water and closing in summer in order to retain it.
These materials have by definition more than 20% carbonates and the rest of the rock is composed of silt and clay or quartz.
The soils coming from the alteration of these sedimentary rocks are formed from the residues left by the dissolution of carbonates. Thus, the type of soil formed is related to the predominant type of "impurities" in limestones and dolomites.
If the limestones are rich in clay, the result is clayey and impermeable soils, with pH and saturation of high bases.
If the limestone is rich in sand, the soils formed are thick, permeable, less basic.
If the limestone is rich in iron impurities, such as hematite, the result is a red soil, usually acidic.
Enthenols are orthents with a dry moisture regime.
The typical Xerorthents correspond to neutral or basic soils, developed in inconsistent materials, capable of providing bases (marls, marl-limestones, sands, gypsums, arches, quaternary deposits: colluvial, alluvial and terraces), usually rich in calcium carbonate.
They are frequent in the countryside and on hillsides and valley bottoms of the physiographic unit of the Páramos, in the central and eastern areas of the Ribera del Duero.
Frequently, they are associated cartographically with Inceptisols of the Haploxerepts or Calcixerepts groups.
Bodegas Convento de las Claras is located in Peñafiel, in the heart of the Ribera del Duero.
The building hides a cozy and functional winery, ideal for the production of quality wines and for your visit.
In addition, the winery, as an open space for wine tourism, allows the visitor to visit its facilities and know, from within, how we make wine and satisfy their curiosity at the hands of our team.
Our challenge is the production of high quality wines that express the nature and personality of each of our terroirs, which, the object of research and experience of many years, represent the greatness of the Ribera del Duero. The combination of unique soils (clay-loam, clay-sandy and franc-calcareous), old Tempranillo vines, as well as the climate of the Ribera de Duero and the meticulous work in the vineyard over the years, result in grapes of exceptional quality that are treated in the winery with the greatest possible care, in order to extract all its oenological potential. Therefore, each payment is vinified and matured in new barrels, separately, in order to express their unique identity.Visítanos
The philosophy of Bodegas Convento las Claras is simple: the winery is an open space for your visit, where one of our professionals will guide you through our winery to better understand how we make our wine
TASTING NOTES:
Layer very covered with cherry on ripe, with strong purple edges in its thin layer.
The nose has a very high fruit intensity of blackberries, raspberries, blackberries and black licorice, which are combined with toasted and spicy aromas typical of its aging in French oak.
Its entry into the mouth is very fleshy and dense, with a lot of breadth. It stands out for its balanced acidity, soft tannins and a very long and suggestive aftertaste, in which fruit and spicy notes are again displayed
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TASTING NOTES:
Aromatic, powerful, fragrant, and fresh.
Delivery raspberries, strawberries, aniseed touches, ripe grapes, greedy.
There is stone fruit, flowers, such as lily or violets, plum skin, balsamic herbs and a spicy background.
It has a splendid mouth, fresh and greedy, without saturating, balanced, with an elegant bitterness reminiscent of the skin of red grapefruit. Very persistent length with volume and mellowness.
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TASTING NOTES:
Made with the grapes from the Carrizos estate, the purest expression of terroir from Ribera del Duero.
Cherry red color with a violet rim with a very high layer and pigmented tears.
A complex nose with aromas of black fruits and liquorice, toast, vanilla and dried fruits.
In the mouth it has a powerful entry, with a balanced acidity.
Long journey with a very fine finish of fruit and spices.
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TASTING NOTES:
It is the mixture of the four oldest terroirs in the winery, Pago de Carrizos, Pago de Los Libros, Pago del Sotillejo and Pago de San Juan.
Pillory color with violet rim of very high layer and pigmented tear. A nose of very good intensity with very clear aromas of licorice, very typical of the Tinto Fino variety in La Ribera del Duero.
Dairy notes, fruit in brandy, toasted, vanilla, nuts ... and above all lots of fruit, with a slight mineral touch.
The palate has a powerful entrance, with a balanced acidity, present tannins of good shapes, which will give the wine a better texture with the passage of time. Long journey with a very fine end of fruit and spices.
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TASTING NOTES:
This wine is only made the excellent vintages and is a selection of the 10 best barrels of payment of San Juan.
Cherry red color.
Nose: aromas of wood, black fruit, licorice, balsamic touches and mineral notes such as flint conjugated with cosmetic and fatty aromas.
Mouth: black fruit, toffee, licorice and mineral touches.
Tasty and pleasant tannins. Long and persistent finish with a balsamic and mineral aftertaste.
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TASTING NOTES:
It is very fleshy and the environmental character provides very round tannins that enhance its feminine, subtle and fatty character. This wine is only made the excellent vintages, coming from the integrated production of the plot The Blessings, in the town of Boada de Duero.
The site of Blessings is based on a granitic entisol of alluvial origin that has given rise to a chalky sandy soil, of medium depth in which a clayish beta can be seen in its "C" horizon.
These edaphological characteristics together with its situation at 900 meters of altitude and the meso-mediterranean arid climate typical of the D.O. Ribera del Duero, confer a characteristic of "terroir" unique, which is expressed in the wine in the form of perfumed notes of white flowers and cosmetic nuances of cinnamon and cloves.
Made from old vines 100% of the Tinto Fino variety, planted in 1946 in the payment of Blessings.
Raised in French and American oak barrels for 36 months and matured in bottle from the date of bottling in September 2014.
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TASTING NOTES:
Bright yellow straw color, with greenish reflections.
Aroma, intense, elegant, fresh and complex. It shows a marked fruity tone of apricot and ripe white pear, wrapped in fresh notes of grapefruit. Likewise, aromas of fennel and an aniseed background are appreciated.
The palate is unctuous, sweet and elegant with a soft touch of final bitterness.
The aftertaste sensation is persistent, complex and intense.
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TASTING NOTES:
Pale yellow with steely edges in a thin layer and dense.
On the nose it is elegant and mineral loaded with white flowers, intense fruits and fresh buds, cradled with subtle spicy notes of noble woods.
On the palate it is fatty, meaty with a fresh finish and a floral aftertaste.
LIMITED PRODUCTION: 3,000 BOTTLES
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José Carlos studied Agricultural Technical Engineering and completed the Master's Degree in Viticulture and Enology at the University of Valladolid. Later he completed his training completing the studies of Agronomist at the University of León, where he developed the doctorate courses and obtained the degree of Doctor.
He is currently the technical and executive director of the Bodegas Convento de las Claras project, from which he is developing the wines covered by the brand.
To visit our winery, you must make a previous reservation by calling (+34) 983 880 150.
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