BODEGAS COVINCA

HISTORY:

In the town of Longares, a village near Zaragoza, a group of farmers decided to unite their vineyards, their effort, their knowledge, love and passion for wine and so in 1945 Bodegas Covinca was born, a wine cooperative that belongs to the Cariñena Protected Designation of Origin and that in 2020 celebrated 75 years of its foundation.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE:

From the outset, the purpose of these visionary farmers was to produce and promote quality wines. This union continues to be ideal, since it combines tradition and respect for the countryside, where authentic sustainable agriculture is practiced and where innovation and modernization of the production system is a constant. A very dynamic and social character, where the involvement of each worker and farmer of the winery is essential to produce wines that become identity, pride, and representation of its history, its lands and its people.

A WINE OF KINGS:

The first traces found of the winemaking tradition of the area date from the third century BC when the Celtiberian nation already drank wine from the area mixed with honey, a tradition maintained by the first Roman settlements. Writings of 1415 show that the preferential list of foods of Ferdinand I of Aragon included "the wine of Cariñena and Longares, the cheese of Peñafiel, the Pyrenean legs or the wheat of Zaragoza". At the end of the nineteenth century when phylloxera had destroyed the vineyards in France, many families from this country settled in this Aragonese area, which meant a boost to mercantile, scientific activity and development of wineries and infrastructures in the area.