MORILES (CÓRDOBA), May 23. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Andalusian Institute for Agricultural, Fishing, Food and Organic Production Research and Training (Ifapa), Marta Bosquet, and the manager of Bodegas Doblas, Antonio Doblas, signed an agreement for the development this Thursday in Moriles (Córdoba) of a line of organic sparkling wines of the Pedro Ximénez variety, taking advantage of the infrastructure of traditional wineries.
The delegate of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía in Córdoba, Francisco Acosta, also participated in this activity, which included a guided tour of the Bodegas Doblas facilities in Moriles; the mayor of Moriles, Francisca Carmona, and the director of the Ifapa center in Cabra (Córdoba), Brígida Jiménez.
Specifically, through this agreement, an experimentation and knowledge transfer project will be initiated that aims to address one of the main conditions of the traditional method of making sparkling wines.
Thus, the traditional aging cellars under a flor veil will be used to produce foam and age sparkling wines, avoiding investment in new infrastructure and also adapting production to the particularities of the Andalusian wine sector.
The project that is now being launched, directed by the specialist technician Juan Manuel León, will also contribute to the conservation of this heritage, highlighting both a traditional variety and the structure of traditional wineries.
Among the specific objectives that arise with this agreement are the design of a range of organic sparkling wines of the Pedro Ximénez variety from the superior quality ‘Moriles Altos’ area, from the Montilla-Moriles Protected Designation of Origin (DOP), and the physicochemical and sensory characterization of the products obtained.
In the same way, the collaboration between Ifapa and Bodegas Doblas seeks to diversify Andalusian wine production and promote new products demanded by consumers. In this sense, the technology developed in the project will be transferred to the sector in technical conferences and informative publications.
The agreement signed this Thursday is in turn part of the transfer and cooperation project ‘Adaptation of Andalusian viticulture to new eco-climatic and consumption scenarios. Experimentation, transfer and cooperation (Adaptaviti)’, coordinated from the Ifapa center in Cabra by the specialist technician Pilar Ramírez. This line of work, which will be developed until 2026, is 80% co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
WINE EXPERIMENTATION
The diversification of Andalusian wine products has been a line of work of the Ifapa de Cabra center since its beginnings, developing projects that have adapted experimentation and technical assistance to the sector, according to the demands of the market and the proposals and demands of the producers. .
Regarding sparkling wines, a product on the rise for three decades and very fashionable in current markets, the technology that Ifapa has developed has generated demand for numerous technical assistance, visits to its experimental winery and a large number of conferences. transfer of results, in addition to the signing of several collaboration agreements with Andalusian wineries.
In this sense, one of the objectives proposed in the current Adaptaviti transfer and cooperation project is to achieve greater adaptation of the traditional method of sparkling production to the eco-climatic and agro-industrial complexity of Andalusia.
With the project that is now beginning, Ifapa aims to study the possibilities of traditional wineries to obtain sparkling wines without the need to resort to air-conditioned rooms or cold rooms, with the consequent investment in infrastructure and greater energy consumption that this entails, thus favoring a more sustainable production.
