{"id":11957,"date":"2026-07-08T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:17:07","slug":"bodegas-fundadoras-ribera-del-duero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/bodegas-fundadoras-ribera-del-duero\/","title":{"rendered":"The wineries that founded D.O. Ribera del Duero in 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hoy la Ribera del Duero es una de las denominaciones de origen m\u00e1s prestigiosas<\/strong> del mundo. Pero en los a\u00f1os setenta nada de esto exist\u00eda: no hab\u00eda denominaci\u00f3n, no hab\u00eda contraetiquetas, y la mayor parte del vino de la zona se vend\u00eda a granel, sin nombre y sin memoria. Que hoy exista la D.O. Ribera del Duero se debe al empe\u00f1o de un pu\u00f1ado de bodegas que creyeron en esta tierra antes que nadie. Esta es su historia \u2014 y tambi\u00e9n la nuestra, porque estuvimos en aquella mesa.<\/p>

The Ribera before the Ribera<\/h2>

Que en esta zona se hace vino desde hace siglos lo demuestran las bodegas subterr\u00e1neas medievales que perforan el subsuelo de pueblos como La Horra<\/a><\/strong>, Roa or Sotillo. But making wine was one thing; claiming it was quite another. In the mid-20th century, the Ribera winegrower sold grapes or bulk wine, and the prestige went to other regions.<\/p>

Hubo excepciones que se\u00f1alaron el camino, y proyectos cooperativos como el nuestro \u2014 fundado en 1957<\/strong> por 218 familias de La Horra \u2014 empezaron a embotellar cuando embotellar era una rareza. De hecho, entre 1968 y 1970 instalamos la primera embotelladora de la Ribera del Duero burgalesa.<\/p>

1978: the meeting in La Horra<\/h2>

The first formal step towards the denominaci\u00f3n was taken in 1978, at a meeting held precisely in La Horra. Eight wineries from the area \u2014 ours among them \u2014 sat down to study the possibility of creating a Denominaci\u00f3n de Origen that would protect the winegrowing potential of the region.<\/p>

Between 1980 and 1982, preparatory meetings followed in La Horra, San Esteban de Gormaz and Aranda de Duero to define the boundaries and the regulations of the future Regulatory Council.<\/p>

1982: the Regulatory Council is born<\/h2>

En 1982 se oficializ\u00f3 por fin el Consejo Regulador de la D.O. Ribera del Duero. Nuestra bodega fue una de las ocho fundadoras<\/strong>, a las que se sumaron otras cuatro en aquel arranque. Doce casas pioneras para una denominaci\u00f3n que hoy agrupa a m\u00e1s de trescientas.<\/p>

La Horra\u2019s weight in that founding became clear a few years later: when the Council\u2019s first plenary was elected by vote in 1989, both the president and one of the board members were natives of our village.<\/p>

What it meant (and what it means)<\/h2>

The denominaci\u00f3n changed everything. The Council\u2019s numbered back label became a guarantee of origin and quality, and Tinto Fino went from anonymous grape to the banner of a region. For us, recognition came early: in 1985, after receiving the Silver Bacchus, we achieved our first export.<\/p>

Almost five decades after that 1978 meeting, we are still making wine a few metres from where it was held. Every bottle that leaves Dominio de Montelahorra carries, besides the Council\u2019s back label, something that cannot be printed: the memory of having been there when it all began.<\/p>

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Hoy la Ribera del Duero…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montelahorra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}