Wednesday 17 October 2012

News from Jerez/El Puerto 17.10.12


Bodegas Osborne will produce over 2.7 million bottles this year

Osborne Communications Director, Ivan Llanza told Efeagro in an interview that although the harvest has been very small, the health and sugar level of the grapes is excellent. From the 6,000 remaining hectares of vineyard, 57 million kilos of grapes were harvested. Osborne own 200 hectares of vineyard in the Jerez Superior area of Balbaina where they grow principally Palomino but also PX, their oldest version of which was awarded 98 Parker points.

EU Reconversion plan will have little effect on Jerez

Of the 123 million Euros awarded to the Spanish Autonomies, Andalucia will receive about 5 million in the 2013 (and final) grant for reconversion and restructuring of vineyard. Vinegrowers in Jerez can pretty well forget any benefits this will bring due to a lack of plant stock and grafts at the nurseries caused by lack of demand due in turn to the uprooting of vineyards.

Growers should have applied by March for grants to change vine varieties or to upgrade vines from the traditional “en vaso” training to “espaldera” training for example, and the lack of plant stock impedes this. Oddly, however the nurseries have begun to increase stocks as some growers are needing them, but this will be too late.

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