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Bodegas Yuntero concludes 2013 with more than a dozen awards and recognition from critic Robert Parker

10 de January de 2014

The wines of the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative received a total of thirteen medals in different national and international competitions held in the wine sector throughout 2013. In addition, during this year, three of the Bodegas Yuntero wines achieved an excellent score by the famous American wine critic Robert Parker. All of this means recognition of the constant work and permanent commitment to quality of this La Mancha winery, which in 2014 celebrates its sixty-year anniversary.

In 2013, three of Bodegas Yuntero's wines -Epílogo Blanco 2012, Epílogo Roble 2011 and the organic Mundo Tempranillo 2012- were reviewed by the influential American wine critic Robert M. Parker, who gave them a score of 90, 89 and 90. respectively. This is an excellent assessment considering that the Parker scale goes from 50 to 100 points. The wines of Bodegas Yuntero have thus been recommended by the prestigious publication The Wine Advocate, a benchmark for the wine sector directed by Parker.

International recognition
Four gold, six silver and three bronze medals make up the set of awards obtained by Bodegas Yuntero in 2013. In the field of international competitions, it is worth noting the Gold Medal for Yuntero Reserva 2007 wine awarded in the prestigious Vinalies Internationales contest which is organized by the Union of Oenologists of France and to which, in the last edition alone, 3,500 samples from all over the world were presented.

Likewise, the Epilogue Roble 2011 wine won a gold medal in the Challenge International du Vin competition in France, the oldest competition of this type held in the neighboring country. Of the 4,360 participating wines in this 37th edition, only 368 were awarded the gold medal. Epilogue Roble 2011 also won the silver medal at the 20th edition of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, which took place in Bratislava (Slovakia) and to which more than 8,000 wines from 50 countries were presented.

Also of great relevance are the gold and silver medals awarded, respectively, to the red wines Mundo Tempranillo 2012 and Epilogue Roble 2011 at the 17th edition of the Berliner Wein Trophy contest.

national awards
At the national level, the Regulatory Council of the La Mancha Denomination of Origin awarded bronze medals to the Yuntero Rosado 2012 and the organic Mundo Tempranillo 2012 wines. The latter, in its white wine version, won a silver medal in the Ecovino national awards organized by the Government of La Rioja, in which only wines from organic vineyards are admitted to the competition. In 2014, it will be 20 years since Bodegas Yuntero presented its line of Mundo wines to the market, the first 100% organic wines made in Castilla-La Mancha.

On the other hand, the wines Yuntero Reserva 2007, Epílogo Blanco 2012, Epílogo Roble 2011 and Lazarillo Blanco 2012 won various medals in the national contest Premios Zarcillo of the Junta de Castilla y León, and in the regional Airén por el Mundo and Regional Contest of Quality of wines from the Regional Country Fair of Castilla-La Mancha (FERCAM).

60 years harvesting wine
In 2014 it will be 60 years since the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative was established in Manzanares (Ciudad Real) by 102 winegrowing partners from the area. Today there are already 700, with a total extension of vineyards of 6,000 hectares. White wines are produced from these vineyards, both in their conventional and organic versions, with the Airén, Macabeo, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay grape varieties; and Red wines with the Cencibel, Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah varieties.

Bodegas Yuntero thus offers a wide range of bottled wines: Young, Crianza, Reserve and Organic under four Denominations (D.O. La Mancha Wines, Tierra de Castilla Wines, Organic Wines, Table Wines). The currently registered brands form a wide range prepared for the different markets: Yuntero, Lazarillo, Casa de la Teja, Cesta de Frutas, Viña Altair, Mundo de Yuntero, Cultus, Ídolo and Epilogue.

Currently, the wines of Bodegas Yuntero are marketed in 18 countries in Europe, the Far East and Australia.

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QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY POLICY

At Bodegas Yuntero we consider essential the development of a Quality, Environmental and Food Safety Management System, based on the Standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and in the BRC and IFS Food Safety Protocols, in order to certify the safe production of our wines, complying with the legal and regulatory requirements that are applicable in our wine production, aging, bottling and marketing activities, and with those established by the client, and other requirements that the organization subscribes, related to its environmental aspects and occupational health and safety hazards.

The Winery supports all staff in the maintenance and continuous improvement of the system, considering each worker as the protagonist of the most important phase of the service of a company of recognized Quality, also promoting responsibility towards the environment.

Bodegas Yuntero, through its Integrated Management System, allows patents, its concern and permanent commitment to Quality and the Environment and to achieve a guarantee for the future of our planet that only competitive, sustainable organizations at the forefront of the market can offer.

Our work is based on the following fundamental pillars:

  • Elaborate top quality products and that they meet the expectations of the interested parties, that they are innocuous, legal and authentic, adjusting to the specified quality, as well as assuming their responsibility towards their clients. This is achieved by defining a clear plan to drive the development and continuous improvement of a culture of quality and food safety.
  • Respect, before their employees, equal opportunityand treatment, their privacy, their freedom from opinion, to guarantee a safe and healthy work environment, the necessary training, employment stability, fair remuneration, as well as avoiding forms of psychological persecution.
  • Offer our customers a Quality service, within the agreed period, maintain due confidentiality and respect for the privacy of thier data, adopt an attitude of honesty and have procedures for handling suggestions and claims
  • Promote in all employees a greater degree of solidarity, responsibility, social participation and the culture of quality and food safety.
  • Manage effectively and efficiently, by making its business activity compatible with the exercise of its social responsibility.
  • Correct and precise definition of the procedures, responsibilities and functions to follow in all departments.
  • Compliance with all the legal requirements and applicable regulations, and other requirements that the organization subscribes.
  • Promotion of qualitu, environmental and food safety, at all comany levels, providing adequate training for all the staff.
  • Prevention, control and minimization of the environmental effects generated in the environment, originated from our activity.
  • Promotion of the implementation of segregation programs at the origin of waste, to favor its subsequent reuse and/or proper disposal.
  • Arrange the delivery of our products in a way that causes the lowest possible environmental impact , always making sure that the products reach our customers in suitable packaging that complies with the applicable environmental regulations.
  • It considers environmental criteria a priority in decision-making, and studying at all times the best environmental technology available, thus modernizing our processes to increase their effectiveness in a reasonable period of time and where necessary.

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