CULTIVATION OF THE VINE

Also they try to obtain an “ecosystem-vineyard” in equilibrium. If a field is not being cultivated it naturally forms an ecosystem in which the plants growing on it get their resources from the soil as it is, without any external addition, that means: water only from raining, rests of other plants, insects, birds, mushrooms and so on. That is called a balanced ecosystem. In this sense, agriculture always changes the ecosystems by putting in the field certain plants and eliminating other that grew spontaneously. But besides, almost always it breaks the equilibrium, forcing to the plants with artificial irrigation, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, etc. ... disappearing thus besides the originality of the “terroir” (peculiar characteristic of each land as type of soil, orientation, situation, climatology, lighting, etc... which they are expressed in the products that in it are produced).

In adition, Ullate’s winery looks for in their vineyards an ecosystem in equilibrium, in which the vines produce the fruits that can produce of completely sustainable form, without being forced by artificial irrigation, fertilizers and so on, using as fertilizer uniquely organic matter the remainders of pruning of the own plants and dead herbs, conserving with all this the peculiar characteristics of these “terroirs” , emphasizing for the quality and diversity of their soils the fields San Gregorio, Corral de Luna, and Ginister, in which is located the small but functional winery .The control of the plagues and cryptogamic diseases is achieved with physical methods (eliminated of young branches and leaves, stripped, blunted of the branches, eliminated of sour grapes that are touching to other, pruning in green… so that to circulate the air). Only in occasional moments fungicide treatments are applied, but chemical products of synthesis are never used, With what besides we achieve very ecological fruits of extreme quality, and a high level of care and respect by the environment.

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