Uvas Bailen - Bailén
Visitors can discover the sixty-year-old vineyard and learn about its history, the entire growing and harvesting process and how grapes are prepared for sale. Visitors in September can taste the freshly picked grapes, and collect their own boxes of grapes to take home. Uvas Bailén was established in September 2019 due to the closure of the Santa Gertrudis winery. Faced with the challenge of what to do with the grapes and to avoid having to dig up the vineyard, they decided to sell dessert grapes and use the remaining grapes for wine-making. There are currently two small vineyards (0.95 hectares in total), with about 900 vines planted in 3x3m sections. One of the vineyards was planted in 1962, the other in 1980. Bailén’s dessert grapes used to be very popular and were sold in the local markets of nearby towns. The goods were carried on mules, and lorries even came to take them to the north of Spain. In the mid-1990s, the grapes were no longer used as dessert, but exclusively to make wine.
Location
Located east of Bailén, on Camino Casa Pajares.