Canned wine or made with frozen grapes: wineries seek market through innovation

Family wine sagas link tradition and territory to innovation in order to stay competitive in a globalized market. We see some examples exhibited at the wine fair BWW. The bet on selling wine in cans, bottles that reach a value of 1,000 euros, wineries with their own Designation of Origin, or wine made with ice grapes are some of the curiosities and innovations that a sector has been betting on, which this week has shown its best at the Barcelona Wine Week fair. Rubén Montero, winemaker and owner of Bodegas Valdesneros, located in Torquemada (Palencia) and belonging to the Arlanza DO, has taken the opportunity to showcase his wine "Amantia", made with tempranillo grapes harvested after the first frosts of winter. Exposing these grapes to frost causes some of them to become pacified and infected with the botrytis fungus, processes that manage to give "complexity" to this wine, as he told Efeagro. This freezing reduces the water in the grape and concentrates the sugars, which ferment ...