The great potential in the early eighties, of the then unknown Ribera del Duero, did not go unnoticed by some winemakers of origin Leonese who decided to bet on her. Thus, in 1986, Señorío de Nava was founded, becoming one of the first wineries to belong to the Denomination of Origin Ribera del Duero.
Since then and under the name of Bodegas Señorío de Nava, wines have been made from the most important appellations of origin in Castilla y León, Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Toro.
In the early 2000s the winery changed hands. The Vazquez family Muñoz-Calero with Antonio Vázquez at the helm and convinced of respect for the earth and nature decide to promote the values that should distinguish the future of the winery: the value of time, the return to the origins and the passion for a job well done; All with the sole objective of improving harvests every year and betting on authenticity and excellence.
In 2003, Señorío de Nava, with the acquisition of a small winery built in 1910, entered the Rueda Denomination of Origin for the first time.
A great wine is an accumulation of extraordinary decisions
BACK TO THE ORIGINS
After a manual harvest, in which the best bunches of the vineyard are selected, and then moving on to the original restored deposits of the winery, a fermentation of the wines is achieved, recovering the same production methods that have characterized the winery since the mid-1950s.
Señorío de Nava has its own farm of 140 hectares with a vineyard of an average age of 40 years made up of 95% fine red grapes.
The farm is subjected to a very severe climate with temperatures that can exceed 35 degrees in summer and drop to 5 degrees below zero in winter. Frosts are not uncommon, so harvests can be in danger for some years.
Its seemingly poor soils at first sight are made up of a mixture of clay, sand, gravel and limestone that accentuates the quality of the wine.
