{"id":244,"date":"2019-02-05T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.independentfamilywineries.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:29:30","slug":"gerardo-viteri-wines-to-share-and-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/gerardo-viteri-wines-to-share-and-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerardo Viteri, wines to share and enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1539756003269 texto-destacado-post\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Visiting Bodegas Gerardo Viteri, particularly if it involves a chat with Gerardo and his wife Aurora, is a great way of understanding the importance of recovering the memory of the real La Rioja \u2014the memory of the families rather than the memory of the large companies, which has gradually eclipsed the former over the past decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1-1024x449.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gerardoviteri-dllo-1-480x211.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the good times didn\u2019t last long. \u201cIn 2000 prices collapsed. At that time, the plan was to bottle and sell half of my production and sell the rest in bulk to other producers to offset my investment,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe problem was that nobody wanted the wine so we just had to take it on the chin and carry on.\u201d Nowadays Bodegas Gerardo Viteri grows 35 hectares of vines in Logro\u00f1o, Lapuebla, Lanciego and Laserna and produces 250,000 bottles under its own brand. \u201cSales are good in surrounding regions like Bilbao, Vitoria or Logro\u00f1o so what\u2019s the point in complicating things with exports and paperwork?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gerardo Viteri doesn\u2019t hide a mischievous grin when he talks about his impending retirement. His son David works in the vineyards and the winery but, being almost 67, he knows that, one way or another, he will be there most days of the rest of his life: \u201cWhere would I go? This is the only thing I know\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His young wines (red, ros\u00e9 and white) are called Viterico; the crianza and reserva go by the name of Legado de Viteri. Honest, unpretentious wines with Tempranillo playing the leading role. \u201cThis area is ideal for Tempranillo, with uncompacted limestone soils that retain water which help to produce fresh and pleasant wines,\u201d he adds. \u201cI don\u2019t really understand the new wave of structured, powerful wines that are made these days; I like wines that are meant to be enjoyed with a good chat among family and friends; the kind of wines that you easily finish the bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Bodegas Gerardo Viteri, particularly if it involves a chat with Gerardo and his wife Aurora, is a great way of understanding the importance of recovering the memory of the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentfamilywineries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}