Fine Wines from the RIBERA DEL DUERO, Spain
Bodegas Peñafiel
Bodegas Peñafiel
Miros de Ribera, a View to the Duero River
From the very beginning, Bodegas Peñafiel, has kept its eyes focused on what really matters.
On those little details that transforms a wine into a state of art.
To be considered as genuine jewels, on the art of crafting great wines.
Wines with the eyes set on Duero, on maintaining the essence of a wine with personality and unique nature.
Let yourself to be captivated by the elegance and fineness of these matchless wines.
Recent Awards
The Golden Mile
The Golden Mile is an expression of an area where many of Spain’s iconic producers are based. There is no specific regulation to the length of this road, but the Bodegas along it are situated in an area that other producers around the globe can only dream of. However, there is only one that is named after the town that most find themselves in. That town is Peñafiel, identified by the Castle (Castillo) of Peñafiel.
Simply put this is an area of great vineyards, great wines, and great Bodegas…but the Golden Mile, in César’s words “is where the most balanced grapes and the oldest vineyards are, and which do not always coincide with proximity to the road”.
In this privileged environment, on the banks of the Duero River is an area of winemaking tradition, recognized as one of the international areas of greatest concentration of wineries producing wine of the highest quality.
“We are a winery in the middle of the Golden Mile, “rooted” to our land and we are proud of it.
Our flag is quality and the search for continuous improvement based on knowledge, highlighting a unique area in the world”.
“The grapes with which I make the different wines of Bodegas Peñafiel come exclusively from vineyards located in the D.O. Ribera del Duero. We control 60 hectares of vineyards, divided into different plots.
We control from winter pruning or dry pruning, through green pruning and ending with the optimal moment of the harvest. For me, this monitoring throughout the year is very important to ensure the best quality of the grapes, which is the basis of our wines and the secret of our quality.
Our vineyards are in three geographical areas with different characteristics that reflect the climate and terroir of each area in our wines.”
More About Bodegas Peñafiel
A State of Art Winery
In Bodegas Peñafiel we work from the heart and keeping a watchful eye on what really matters, for offering you the finest delight in the shape of a glass of wine.
César Arranz Hernandez
Winemaker at Bodegas Peñafiel
One winemaker, one vision.
Much like many artists who dedicate themselves to a genre and style, César Arranz Hernandez has immersed himself in the world of wine and viticulture in the Ribera del Duero. It started early on in his life with his family tradition, from there he went on to study his degree in oenology and as agricultural technical engineer at the university of Valladolid. He also completed his studies as a business director and management of agricultural business. Finally completing with his master’s degree in oenology from the Miguel de Cervantes University.
Harnessing his traditional and studied knowledge led him in 2012 to work side by side and vinify in Aalto (Ribera del Duero) with the world-renowned oenologist Mariano García who was the winemaker of 25 years at Vega Sicilia.
From 2013 to 2022 he established the 3 Ases (“aces”) winery. Also, during this time, in 2005, he harvested at Bodegas César Príncipe (D.O. Cigales), under the guidance of the prestigious oenologist César Muñoz, creator of great wines in Ribera del Duero. Since 2019, and as part of the Cowine project, César has produced barrel-fermented high-expression whites, Verdejo at Bodegas Mazas (D.O. Toro) and Godello at Bodegas Malaparte (Cuéllar).
Whilst defining our style he brings all his skills and experience to enhance the personality of the singular vineyards of Bodegas Peñafiel, not least in Ribera del Duero, but also in Rueda and in Rias Baixas.
So, what is it that César does?
“The grapes with which I make the different wines of Bodegas Peñafiel come exclusively from vineyards located in the D.O. Ribera del Duero. We control 60 hectares of vineyards, divided into different plots.
We control from winter pruning or dry pruning, through green pruning and ending with the optimal moment of the harvest. For me, this monitoring throughout the year is very important to ensure the best quality of the grapes, which is the basis of our wines and the secret of our quality.
Our vineyards are in three geographical areas with different characteristics that reflect the climate and terroir of each area in our wines.”
It’s all about the Tempranillo variety, perfectly adapted to our terruño (“terroir”)!
AKA – Tinta del País or Tinto/a Fino/a
The vineyards, the variety, and the vines.
Bodegas Peñafiel vineyards are situated in three geographical areas with different characteristics that reflect the climate and terroir of each area in our wines all located in the provinces of Valladolid and Burgos.
The vineyards of Valladolid are in the areas of Valbuena de Duero, Quintanilla de Arriba, Castrillo de Duero, Canalejas, Olmos and Torre de Peñafiel, that is, in a radius of 20 kilometers around Peñafiel.
The wines made from grapes from this area reflect the alkaline pH of the soils, up to a pH of 9, and their high limestone content, with silty loam and clay loam textures.
They are white soils with gypsum outcrops on the surface, vineyards on hillsides are characteristic, and with slopes of up to 40% in some cases in the Duero plain, alluvial terrain, with boulders and much icier, which provide a small quantity of grapes but of very high quality.
The vineyards of the province of Burgos are in two very different areas, some in the Páramo de Corcos, municipalities of Valdezate and Nava de Roa and the others, closer to Aranda de Duero.
The Páramo de Corcos is characterized by a very extreme climate, very cold winters and hot summers giving the grapes great tannic potential due to the large temperature differences that occur in the area during the ripening phase of the berries, this oscillation can reach 20º C between morning and afternoon temperatures. The altitude of these vineyards is close to 1000 meters above sea level, on stony and limestone soils, with a pH of 8-8.5, the gravel content increasing as altitude is lost.
The Aranda de Duero area provides older vineyards, over 100 years old, in bush form, from smaller plots that in many cases have not yet undergone parcel concentration. Towns such as La Horra, Hontoria de Valdearados or Santa Cruz de la Salceda provide us with more balanced grapes because of the age of the vines. They are the oldest vines, on deep soils, sand on the surface, limestone concretions and clay horizons are their edaphic characteristics. The climate, which is not so hot in summer and cold in winter, and the altitude close to 1000 meters, results in an ideal acidity for great aging wines.
One region and many icons.
From that terroir César identifies the qualitative peculiarities of each vintage, choosing the areas, soils, and plots, suitable for each type of wine, except in the case of our “Single Vineyard” or parcel wine, which is an exclusive plot of our property that is located near the winery, called Viña Rafael. The wine is Silencio de Miros.
Why Silencio?
It takes the name from not only the silence in the vineyard, but also that moment when the wine speaks, and we become silent while enjoying it.