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Vintage 2014

10 October 2014

With 95 million kilos of grapes collected, it is the largest campaign in the 60 years of history of the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative, which becomes the second with the most production in all of Spain.

The Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative ended last Wednesday, October 8, the grape harvesting of its members with a production of 95 million kilos of grapes, 6% more than in the previous campaign. The 2014 harvest becomes a production record in the 60-year history of the winery, which also becomes the second most productive wine cooperative in Spain.

As in the Castilian-La Mancha region as a whole, the 2014 campaign of this cooperative has been lower in production per hectare. However, the incorporation of numerous new members has increased the Cooperative's activity significantly, achieving an adequate size to optimize its costs and continue with the stage of expansion and marketing of Bodegas Yuntero wines throughout the world.

Currently, the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative, based in Manzanares (Ciudad Real), has 800 Members - from up to 6 municipalities - with an area of ​​its own vineyards of 7,000 Hectares. The current storage capacity of the winery is 85 million liters of wine.

Vintage 2014
The 2014 harvest, which began on August 6 with the harvesting of the Chardonnay variety grapes, has developed very satisfactorily. After Chardonnay, the grapes of the Moscatel variety, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Verdejo, Macabeo and finally the majority Airén were received. Regarding the red grapes, we began with the collection of the old vine Tempranillo variety and continued with Merlot, Syrah, Tempranillo, Petit Verdot and Cabernet.

Of the 95 million kilos of grapes from Bodegas Yuntero's 2014 harvest, 15 million come from organic vineyards. The Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative was a pioneer in Castilla-La Mancha in producing and marketing wines from organic farming in 1992, increasing its production each year until it became the most important winery in Spain in this denomination of grapes.

The quality of the grapes from the 2014 harvest has been excellent, with optimal health status throughout the campaign, achieving wines of the highest quality.

Expansion of the winery facilities
In 2014, the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative has made a significant investment - more than 6 million euros - in its facilities with the aim of improving all production processes and increasing storage capacity.

With this investment, Bodegas Yuntero has launched four new unloaders in the 2014 harvest, equipped with the latest technology to achieve rapid reception and crushing of the grapes. As well as a new white grape jar, self-emptying tanks, settling tanks, pneumatic presses, and new cold equipment to control the appropriate temperatures in wine fermentations. Currently, the Cooperative has installed more than 6,000,000 refrigerators.

The expansion works have also included the installation of new stainless steel storage tanks, with the capacity to hold 20 million liters of wine which, added to the existing ones, give the winery a total storage capacity of 85 million liters. of wine.

International market
86% of Bodegas Yuntero's current production is destined for export, so that a large part of the Cooperative's commercial strategy is focused on foreign markets. Currently, Bodegas Yuntero exports its wines to 17 countries around the world, and has its own sales team in Europe, Asia and America.

The quality of Bodegas Yuntero wines has been recognized nationally and internationally by obtaining first prizes in various prestigious competitions such as Vinalies Internationales, Berliner Wein Trophy, Bacchus, Baco, Challenge International du Vin and Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, among others. .

Graphic album of the 2014 harvest at Bodegas Yuntero.

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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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