Our company has 32 hectares of own vineyards, with more than 15-year-old and its technical team controls and assesses other 50 hectares of vineyards that years after years provide us their grapes.

Thanks to that we can always supply with grapes of the same vineyards and with what we obtain that our wine will be always similar.
In all the smallholdings the production of grapes is always controlled and it does not transcend, in none of them, the 5.000 Kg/Has. It means that each vine produces about 3,12 Kg of grapes. In the smallholdings destined to our wine of author, the production is reduced to 2 Kg of grapes for vine.
In Extremadura the majority of vineyards can produce between 5 and 7 Kg of grapes by vine, reducing the quality of the grapes and of course, of the wine production.

In our vineyards we apply ecological systems of cultivation, with that we obtain healthier wines and of better quality. Although the majority of our wine do not be controlled and guaranteed by the agencies that control our wine.

In the following lines we are going to explain in what our wine consists and this system of cultivation

 

• What is considered in the market as “Ecological Wine”?

• In what the ecological cultivation of agriculture vineyards consists and what is the difference with respect to the traditional cultivation of vineyards?

• How the elaboration of an ecological wine of agriculture is elaborated?

• Which is the difference of the quality of this wine?

• What organs control and guarantee the quality offered?

• What lead us to elaborate this special wine?

What is considered in the market as “Ecological Wine”?

Ecological wine is based, basically, in the productive process of the grape. In ecological agriculture, the grape produced is exempt from any chemical synthetic residue. Our wine is the result of that fermentation of health and stable grapes that conserve all their nutritious and natural qualities.


In what  the ecological cultivation of agriculture vineyards consists and what is the difference with respect to the traditional cultivation of vineyards?

In the ecological cultivation of vineyards the use of insecticides, pesticides and chemical fertilizer for the treatment of pests and illnesses is totally prohibited; it means that in the vineyards ecologically cultivated the natural rhythm of the plant has been respected, being obtained stronger and more resistant vines.

The use of insecticides, pesticides and chemical-synthetic fertilizer, affect to the natural process of the growth and maturing of the grapes. The return to the traditional agriculture inherited by our grandparents, in which only natural compounds and organic fertilizer were used, makes that we maintain the balance of the vine.

The vineyard is fertilized, in a different way than conventional one, with natural fertilizers, with manure or sowing a series of plants that are cut when they are grown and are contributed to the vineyard serving as fertilizer. During the pruning season, the vine shoots are triturated and not burned and are contributed to the ground, providing to this, a good percentage of the organic matter that it will need during the whole year.

In the ecological vineyard herbicides can not be used as in the conventional one, and because of that, the treatment of weeds should be carried out with mechanical farming or manual form. In Romero´s vineyards, the weeds that round the vines, are dig with a manual form, with the hoe in your hand, twice a year. All this favors the maintenance of the microbial natural flora of the floor.

To fight with pests and illnesses, the main resource is the powdered sulfur (natural product), applied as a minimum of three times a year. Other resources are: the cúprico hydroxide or bordales broth for the mildiu and the bacillus thurigiensis for the worm of the vine.
Besides all these applications in Romero´s Cellar, we make different preventive tasks as avoid the weeds or detach vine to vine, in a natural way, separating all old cortex in where the mites and other insects stay during the winter and then in spring go to the vineyards. So that, it is a really problem. We also make a good fertilization with manure, favoring in that way that the plant will be more resistant to pests and illnesses.

How the elaboration of an ecological wine of agriculture is elabrated?

In the elaboration of wine that proceed of ecological agriculture grapes, the main characteristic is that the treatments are applied to the must in ordet to get a good fermentation. In the ecological must only the use of yeasts that exist in a normal form into the must or selected yeasts are permitted. The use of anhídrido sulfuroso and acido tartárico are limited. In a same way, the clarificantes should be of natural origin, albúmina of white of an egg, non-hydrolyze gelatin, bentonita, ...
Traditional musts are corrected to enlarge or camouflage the virtues or defects of the musts, providing them a great variety of products, and sometimes people abuse of it too much and also of taninos, enzyms, activators, clarificantes,...
The cleaning of the tanks are carried out with hot water, about 80ºC, for its better disinfection and cleaning

Which is the difference of the quality of this wine?

Making ecological agriculture in our vineyards, we obtain healthy and without residues grapes that will avoid possible tasted and aromatic alterations in the wine later.
Because of it, these are the results of the fermentation of healthier and stable grapes, collected them in its optimum moment, for that we obtain a better harmonious wine and with more intense organolépticas qualities, pointing up the typical characteristics of the zone.

Because of the special characteristics of the ecological cultivation of vineyard the pecularity of the elaboration of this wine, the price of it can be between 10% and a 15% more than the traditional ones but it serves its right.

The Ecological Product has the maximum sanitary, nutritious and organoléptica quality, besides it maintain its maturity and alimentary properties during more time.

What organs control and guarantee the quality offered?

All these processes are supervised and guaranteed for the organs of control of the ecological agriculture. Because of it, we offer the healthier and more controlled wine in the whole zone of Extremadura.

They are controlled and guaranteed for:

CEPAE: Committee of Extremadura of the Ecological Agrarian Production. 
CRAEX: Regulating Agroalimentario Ecological Counsel of Extremadura, Denomination of Origin: Bank of the Guardiana.

What lead us to elaborate this special wine?

As everyone know, we find us before serious problems in our environment, caused by labour, the increase of the depopulation, climatic changes, unknown illnesses, environmental contamination, presence of residues in the crops produced in the conventional agriculture [...] All of these have produced a situation in which all of us contribute, in greater or smaller measure, to the destruction of the environment in which we live.

From Romero´s Cellars, we want to contribute, in the measure of our possibilities, to the maintenance of our ecosystem. We’d like to awaken to make a healthier, pleasant environment. And we´d like to get that our children enjoy a similar environment such as that one we inherited.

We have been applying systems of cultivations and elaboration compromised with our environment to produce and offer our clients some free of residues wine. We do not make anything new. In the Cellars, we have always cultivated the vines as our grandparents did since 1954. The only new thing that we bring is the seal of guarantee that accredits the agricultural procedure.
Almost 50 years have past since the foundation of our Cellar but we continue applying the teachings inherited. Because of it we always are based on our saying:

“...Maybe, the pass of the time aged people,
but the taste of past thoughts stays in our memories.”.