The Story of Emilio Moro [Spain]

The D.O. Ribera del Duero - Home of the Great Emilio Moro

The history of the bodega goes back three generations; Emilio Moro was born in the heart of the Pesquera wine-growing area and grew up treading grapes and racking wine in his native village of Pesquera de Duero, in the province of Valladolid. As early as 14 years old, Emilio helped his father sell 100 large earthenware pitchers of wine to local clients.

This was a different era, when the grapes were crushed by treading in a large stone trough in the family wine cellar. The skins were pressed using a large wooden beam, the wine was made in casks and sold to seasonal farm labourers who came to work the fields or was taken by cart to other local villages. From this same cellar, wine was sold in quarter-litre jugs to local customers, who would pay by dropping a coin through a groove in the table into a box below, which was kept locked by the father, the only person with the key.

Today every fermentation at Bodegas Emilio Moro begins spontaneously, without the help of commercial yeasts or supplements to activate the process. The only aim in this approach is to pay the greatest possible respect to the oenological potential of each individual plot, and thereby to bring out the typicity of each of those plots in the wine. The particular design of our fermentation vats (short with a wide base) makes it perfect for the greatest possible extraction of polyphenols and anthocyanins.

Details about our Emilio Moro Wine

This wine carries the name of its creator and was the original flagship brand of the Bodega, previously sold as crianzas. However, these concepts have now disappeared, and today, the brand is solely a wine made from vines of between 15 and 25 years old, and which is aged in French and American oak barrels for 12 months.

The wine was made from truly top-quality grapes of excellent ripeness, which is demonstrated from the beginning to the end of the tasting. The wine displays an intense colour with a bluish rim and a cherry-red core. Attractive, perfectly integrated fruit aromas come to the fore with power and concentration.