{"id":13467,"date":"2021-08-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2021-08-23T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:14:41","slug":"espelt-winegrowers-thoroughly-emporda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/espelt-winegrowers-thoroughly-emporda\/","title":{"rendered":"Espelt winegrowers: thoroughly from the Empord\u00e0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anna Espelt, the winery’s director and oenologist, sees viticulture as a tool for caring for the environment. Her philosophy is to always learn and to understand and respect the land that allows her to make “thoroughly Empord\u00e0 and Mediterranean” wines.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Bodega <\/span>Espelt<\/b><\/a> viticultores del Empord\u00e0<\/b> was founded in 1999 when the grandfather of Anna Espelt, oenologist and current director of the winery, at the age of 69, decided to make wine. Throughout twenty years of work, the director tells us that “<\/span>the winery has always worked from learning<\/b>, discovering which are the best terroirs and which are the varieties that work best in their lands. And it turns out that these are the indigenous varieties, the ones that have always been there: <\/span>lledoner<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>carinyena<\/span><\/i>“. And she adds: “Being a family business has allowed us to think in the long term and plan ahead, and it has also allowed me, as a woman, to be in charge of the project for many years”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Caring for the land<\/b><\/h3>\n

Anna Espelt is a biologist and oenologist and is very involved in caring for the environment where the winery is located: “All the paths of knowledge that I have taken, because every day you learn new things, have been focused in caring for the territory. We take care of it through agriculture, because nature and agriculture, should work in synergy, they should not go against each other”. Love for the land that is reflected in the viticulture she does, based on the use of procedures that respect biodiversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For years, they have been working with ecological production in mind and taking into account agricultural areas of natural value. For them, it means working on a part of their land with <\/span>extensive livestock farming to reduce inflammable biomass<\/b>, and thus manage the cork oak forests that exist: “It consists of building a landscape as if it was broken, with the aim of having many different ecological niches. It’s about managing the landscape with a broader vision”. They also rebuild dry stone walls, which recover rural architecture, and she concludes that “it turns out that by doing all this we obtain higher quality wines.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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