Bodegas Nabal

Bodegas Nabal

Gumiel de Izán

D. O. Ribera del Duero

Location

Bodegas Nabal is a family-owned winery based in Gumiel de Izán in 2014.

The family Navarro has been involved in the wine industry for more than thirty years in different Spanish wine regions and always has admired Gumiel de Izán as a high-end vinegrowing area due to the quality of their wild microplots, soils, altitude and age of vines. Thus, they decided to build Bodegas Nabal in the Spring 2014.

Appart from the general features of Ribera del Duero wine region, Gumiel de Izán has also a reputation due to the following points:

• Microplots: grapes selected for Nabal wines normally come from many different microplots, which grow among small pyne forests, riverside woods and aromatic herbs. All this will provide different aromas to the wine. This kind of wind landscape is a distinguishing feature in the area.
• Old vines: the average age of these vines are more than eighty years old; thus, all these old vines are bushed vines with low yields of <2.500kg/ha.
• Altitude: these vines are located in selected settings based on slight slopes with a good sun-exposure at altitudes between 870 - 900 meters above sea level. This will make slower ripenings and the grape to concentrate acidity and sugar better.
• Soils: Soils here are composed by a mixture of sands and clays. This hold good water reserves so that the vine can grow and develop better.

Grapes selected for this wine come from certain settings located within a radius of 15 kilometers from the winery in very vinegrowing-relevant villages such as Peñaranda or La Aguilera. 

Philosophy

Since the very beginning, the winemaker Oscar Navarro has built a philosophy based in two key points:

1. Sustainable vinegrowing: for the winemaker Oscar, these wines have been created with the purpose of reflecting the nature of this area. Thus, during the vinegrowing, no external element will be used. Vines will grow with their own means and, as a result, we will obtain natural and healthy grapes which will be able to perform amazing vinifications.
2. Artisanal winemaking: since first fermentation, all labors will occur spontaneously. That means that only natural yeast will make the alcoholic transition. For the malolactic fermentation, hand-labors such as batônnage method will be used to round and strengthen the wine structure.

Wine experiences and tours

Last but not least, wine tourism plays an important role in Bodegas Nabal: tours, tastings, events are carried out in the different halls of the winery. Particularly in Summer, Nabal terrace is famous for its sunsets.

Well-known for the kind and personalized treatment, Bodegas Nabal offers large outdoors and indoors hall to make visits, tastings, wine classes and other events such as conferences and company meetings. Due to its emplacement Nabal is the wine tourism solution with fits premium and high-end red wines the best.