Cabecera Tondonia

The "Bodega Blondeau"

Here you will find the "Bodega Blondeau"" or "cocedero", (boiling ward), one of our oldest buildings. In it takes place the first fermentation of the red wines in 35 Tinas (oak wood vats) of various sizes. The wood for these vats comes mainly from the U.S.A. and France and some smaller quantities from Yugoslavia and Spain. Bodega Blondeau was designed so that the wind will keep it naturally fresh, and as a result avoid high temperature of fermentation.

blondeau Inside "bodega blondeau", our fermentation pavilion

This building of imposing design receives its name from a French "negotiant" from whom D. Rafael, the founder, learned how to make his first wines, around 1875.

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