Our environment
A wine-making tradition going back over 20 centuries
in the heart of Ribera de Duero.
Las Pinzas Valley has been farmed for more than twenty centuries.
Over time, many people have populated this mysterious land, dotted with caves.
It was the Romans, with their well-developed road network and the trading this allowed, who planted vines far and wide across the Ribera region.
The city of Pintia, founded years before by the Vaccaei, the first people to populate the region, would become an important wine-making spot surrounded by vines.
These are extraordinary lands for growing Tempranillo grapes.
Two limestone spurs, with vertical walls, protect the small Valle de Las Pinzas from the great River Duero. The Valdecuriel vineyards are located in an extraordinary spot in the heart of the river plain. The light and the intensity which are characteristic of this area, with its sunny days and cold nights, are ideal to grow very high quality Tempranillo grapes.
The conditions in these wild, tough surroundings are perfect to grow vines which bear an expressive fruit with great personality. The combination of an extreme climate with clay-limestone soil, which is poor but well-drained, gives deep-rooted, fruity wines.
We are Ribera de Duero
The course of the River Duero provides a flat landscape that lends its name to a region with one of the world’s most prestigious, famous denominations of origin, Ribera de Duero. The PDO revolves around the Tempranillo grape on the northern plateau of the Castilla León region. The Valdecuriel winery lies in an amazing spot on the river plain, between the villages of Curiel and Pesquera, in the province of Valladolid.
The weather and nature have given the whole region unique characteristics making it an unbeatable place to produce Tempranillo grapes. The combination of silt, clay and limestone sand sediments plus the strongly contrasting Mediterranean-Continental climate produces a grape with a strong character and a unique strength.
