The Guarantee of Our Products
In mid-August we carry out the first inspections to see how mature the grapes are.
All the grapes produced by the NADAL Estate are harvested at their optimum stage of maturity.
At the start of September each year, a team of twenty pickers begin to select and monitor the grapes on the vine itself, if necessary, so as to ensure that each harvest is taken back to the winery as soon as it is ready, in order to extract the must at the optimum time. The fact that the winery in located on the estate allows us to transport the grapes quickly and thus ensure they are fresh and maintain all their properties.
The staggered ripening of the different grape varieties, first Macabeu, then Xarel·lo, and finally Parellada, allows us to harvest all the grapes from the 43 vineyards at their optimum stage of maturity.
The fact that we use our own grapes to make our wines and cavas, guarantees a regular delivery of grapes, which makes the crushing process easier. The must is extracted using very gentle pressure, producing yields (% litre/kg of grapes) far lower than those required by the Denomination of Origin. Only the essence of each grape, the free-run juice is used to make our products.
The vinification process is carried out in the winery. The free-run juice is poured into fermentation tanks. The wines are then allowed to rest and mature.
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