REAL ORIGINS?

The wineries world is very traditional. When Alfonso X the Wise’s troops arrived to Jerez in 1264 there were already twenty one cellars in the city. In spite of being more than eight centuries of history, the making process have experimented very few changes, generally speaking.

In the last fifty years the process is more or less the same, but there are some changes in the tools to take out the wine of the barrels. This process is designated “la saca” and the tool is called canoe, which is used to take out little by little the wine and mix it with the other barrels.

Tradición Cellar, which we visited, is a young winery, of about thirteen years, but we were able to see that the ripening process is practically the same.

By Jose Maria Guillen. 5º B.