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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