{"id":1441,"date":"2010-09-28T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/blogs\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T08:48:02","slug":"crush-time-at-paco-lola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/crush-time-at-paco-lola\/","title":{"rendered":"Crush time at Paco &amp; Lola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PacoLola-Vendimia-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1438\" title=\"Paco&amp;Lola-Vendimia-2010\" src=\"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PacoLola-Vendimia-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Paco&amp;Lola-Vendimia-2010\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PacoLola-Vendimia-2010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PacoLola-Vendimia-2010-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>What a week! Just ask our head winemaker, Antonio, and the rest of our team. They&#8217;ll tell you how relieved they are to put aside their Paco &amp; Lola polos and workboots and get back to working more civilized hours free from the stress and excitement of the crush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harvest time\u00a0means a lot of hard work for all the team and\u00a0the atmosphere around the winery\u00a0has been\u00a0full of energy and anticipation.\u00a0The crush\u00a0team this year expanded to more than 60 people working in different sections of the winery to receive and crush this year&#8217;s\u00a0harvest\u00a0and make it a great success.\u00a0Everything looks set\u00a0for a great vintage for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/eng\/e_albarino.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paco &amp; Lola&#8217;s Albari\u00f1o<\/a> wine\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/eng\/e_iwine.html\" target=\"_blank\">iWine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The harvest and grape crush are\u00a0key steps in making Paco &amp; Lola&#8217;s wines and\u00a0the culmination of a year&#8217;s work for our\u00a0growers\u00a0who take great care in the manual harvest, transport and handling of our grapes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On arrival at the winery samples are taken to grade the grapes and control quality before they are destemmed and crushed firmly but gently by our state of the art wine\u00a0presses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crush\u00a0is also key to making\u00a0Paco &amp; Lola&#8217;s lively and delicious\u00a0iWine, as the iWine&#8217;s\u00a0grapes are macerated at much lower temperatures than normal by adding dry ice\u00a0to the process\u00a0which concentrates the natural sugars in the grapes and results in a sweeter wine with intense flavors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2010 harvest has been moved forward a week as Spain has experienced one of it&#8217;s hottest summers in recent years and the grapes have reached their optimum maturity slightly sooner than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This summer&#8217;s warm temperatures and low humidity have contributed to make 2010 a good year for grape quality and from here on in we&#8217;re in the capable hands of our head winemaker, Antonio!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week! Just ask our head winemaker, Antonio, and the rest of our team. They&#8217;ll tell you how relieved they are to put aside their Paco &amp; Lola polos and workboots and get back to working more civilized hours free from the stress and excitement of the crush. Harvest time\u00a0means a lot of hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[17,234,94,134,164],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-harvest","tag-albarino","tag-harvest","tag-iwine","tag-paco-lola","tag-salnes-valley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacolola.servidor.gal\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}