BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA

Viñedos y Bodegas

2010

News source: LA VOZ DE GALICIA
Section: Sociedad
Date: 15/01/10
Country: Spain

A high-precision winemaking project fits sensors to the vines to monitor photosynthesis

Galicia to measure the strength of vines to improve wine quality

The initiative by Terras Gauda will reduce each plant's nitrogen, potassium or water deficit and prevent pest attack

Bodegas Terras Gauda Alfondo Andrade
NEWSROOM | That some Galician wines are extraordinary has been acknowledged by Robert Parker and other top wine experts. But there is always room for improvement. The Rías Baixas winery Terras Gauda has announced a high-precision winemaking project it will undertake this year that will position Galicia at the forefront of wine technology.

It consists of individually monitoring each vine via selective vineyard management to improve yields. Sensors will be fitted to all the plants to measure their photosynthetic function – their strength, in other words. The computerised data is collected at nodes to reveal the nutritional status of each vine and apply nutrients as necessary. For example, if a plant needs more potassium, water or nitrogen.

The sensors will also measure the temperature, light, ambient humidity and foliar humidity (the succulence of the leaf), and the combined data of these factors, which determine fungus attacks, will tell the winery exactly when treatment needs to be applied and so balance any deficits being suffered by the plants. And a more selective use of fertilisers will reduce pollution.

Emilio Rodríguez, the Terras Gauda oenologist behind the project, stresses that the idea of this initiative is to measure the ripeness of the grapes and therefore stagger harvesting accordingly. «Each plant ripens at its own rate, but if the temperature is being monitored we can see more clearly which areas are ready and which are not,» he explains. «On the same plot there may be differences in the sugar content of the grapes that is equivalent to nearly one degree of probable alcohol in the wine, and we have 38 plots to deal with.»

Eighty thousand euros

The project, with a budget of around 80,000 euros, makes use of GPS and GIS technology to monitor the plot divisions, as well as powerful data-interpretation software. Staggering the harvest and monitoring the health of the vines will make it possible to harvest grapes in perfect condition at exactly the right time, and therefore obtain a more homogeneous, regular wine production.

INTERVIEW | EMILIO RODRÍGUEZ | Technical Director of Terras Gauda

«Over the next year or two we plan to market the first single-variety Caíño Branco»

A. A.
NEWSROOM | Caíño Branco is a grape variety that is only found in O Rosal and some isolated parts of Portugal. It has an advantage: its extraordinary quality. But also a setback: it is extremely sensitive to disease. Terras Gauda is just a step away from presenting it to the world. «Over the next year or two we plan to market the first single-variety Caíño Branco,» says Emilio Rodríguez, the winery's technical director.

- Why have you made such a firm commitment to this variety?

- Because it's a wonderful local grape, with a potential that I'd even go as far as to say is even greater than that of Albariño.

- But it's a grape that had virtually died out.

- Yes, hardly anyone grows it, because it's so sensitive to disease and awkward to work with. It's very high-maintenance and it's also late to ripen. It's often not ready until October. But the grape, which is only grown in O Rosal, is quite extraordinary. And that's what spurred us to recover it. We've been working with it since 1989 and we now have vines that are 19 years old, with 19 hectares planted. That's 95% of all the Caíño Branco in Galicia. We've done lots of tests that have confirmed that it's an excellent grape, so now it's time to go one step further.

- Make a good wine with it, you mean.

- Within a year or to we want to have on the market what will be the world's first single-variety Caíño Branco, apart from the odd vine grower's home production.

- What are its organoleptic properties?

- It has aromas of tropical fruit de and balsamic ones as well, like eucalyptus and mint. And it's just incredible in the mouth, with a tremendous body. That's its greatest virtue. Now we need to define what we want to make and get it out there as soon as we can.

- Is there still a lot of work to do with this variety?

- We need to get to know it even better and do what we did back in the day with Albariño: clone selection to determine its growing characteristics and make the very most of it from a winemaking point of view. We may undertake the growth study in partnership with the CSIC's Galician Biological Mission. We'll also do the winemaking study, which we're planning to start on straight away.

- Galicia is always coming up with surprises with its grape varieties for winemaking.

- Yes, it's the part of Spain with by far the richest grape-growing heritage.

News source: REVISTA SEMANA
Section: Novedades
Date: 6/01/10
Country: Spain

Terras Gada

Terras Gauda

Bottle of
from Rías Baixas
11,30 €

2009

News source: EL MUNDO
Section: METRÓPOLI
Date: 24/12/09
Country: Spain

8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón

THE ART
OF
WINERIES

THE EIGHTH EDITION
OF TERRAS GAUDA'S
POSTER-DESIGN COMPETITION
CONFIRMS THE
EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN WINE AND DESIGN

The Valencia artist Angel Luis González has won the first prize of 12,000 euros in the 8th Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, organised by the winery Terras Gauda. The jury, which included the top designer Pep Carrió, considered over 1,400 entries sent in from 45 countries. The winning poster will be used as the winery's corporate image for 2010.

This event organised by the well-known winemakers based in the O Rosal valley (D.O. Rías Baixas, Pontevedra) is part of the process of reaching-out by the Hispanic wine world towards the most diverse areas of social and cultural life in recent decades, in parallel with its increasing international recognition. Other examples of collaboration between artists and wineries include the Miquel Barceló's famous label for the Majorca red wine Ánima Negra, and the superb art collection of the Upper Aragonese winery, where oil paintings by leading contemporary artists such as Eduardo Chillida, Antonio Tàpies and Antonio Saura have been used to illustrate their range of wines over the years.

Outside Spain, one of the benchmarks for this tradition of patronage is the collection of labels that was begun in 1945 by Baron Philippe de Rothschild to celebrate the end of the Second World War, with works by some of the leading artists of the 20th century, including Braque, Dalí, Picasso, Bacon and Warhol.

Founded in 1990 under the name Adegas das Eiras and chaired to this day by José María Fonseca, the winery's first wine was the 1991 Abadía de San Campio (100 per cent Albariño). Shortly afterwards the winery's flagship brand was launched, the white Terras Gauda, which, besides Albariño, is made with the native Galician grape varieties Loureiro and Caíño Branco. Since their launch, the firm's wines have been very well received by critics both in Spain and abroad.

The Francisco Mantecón Competition, which was set up as a tribute to the artist (Vigo 1948-2001) responsible for the winery's first corporate image, is characterised by its extensive International reach and its prestige in design media the world over. The two runners-up this year, each winning 2,000 euros, were Julia Anne Luke from the United States and Robi Joeleht from Estonia. The Polish designer Dorota Cichon won a special mention from the jury. J.R. PEIRÓ

2009

News source: EL MERCURIO
Section: Cultura (Culture)
Date: 14/12/09
Country: Ecuador

Ecuadorian poster designer among finalists

Finalist 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition The Spanish winery TERRAS GAUDA has selected a poster from Ecuador among the finalists from among over 1,400 entries received from 45 countries all over the world for the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, maintaining the event's high level of international participation for the fourth year running.

The Americas were particularly well-represented in this year's competition, with over 200 posters from countries including the Ecuador, the United States, Canada, Barbados, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. In Africa, entries were received from South Africa, Tunisia and Mauritius. In Asia, from Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and China. Oceania was represented by entries received from Australia. Graphic designers from Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tunisia took part for the first time.

In Europe the participation from Italy was particularly high, with 360 entries. While France, Poland, Russia, the UK, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden and Serbia also had a significant presence.

The jury selected 33 finalists from which they chose the winning entries. 20 of the finalists were from Spain, four from Italy, two from Argentina, and one each from the USA, Venezuela, Ecuador, Australia, Poland, the UK and Estonia.

The first prize of 10,000 euros went to the Spanish designer Ángel Luis González. The first runners-up prize was for Julia Anne Luke, from Los Angeles, the second for Robi Joeleht, from Estonia, and a special mention went to Dorota Cichon, from Poland. The runners-up receive a prize of 2,000 euros, making a total of 16,000 euros in cash prizes offered by TERRAS GAUDA.

Over the eight editions of this competition, TERRAS GAUDA has managed to involve leading figures at the forefront of International graphics design, with at total of over 8,000 entries from 83 countries all over the world. The event's success is based on ongoing strengthening of national and international communications, constant updating of the invitations to participate, the links between the competition and academia through universities all over the world, and the involvement of top designers by serving on the juries that select the winners.

This year over 65,000 graphic designers, design studios, associations and universities were invited to take part, compared with 1,000 in the first edition of the competition. The prestige achieved by the Francisco Mantecón competition has affected its links with academia, with participation by lecturers and students at International universities, and the first prize in 2007 going to a lecturer in art and design from Osaka University, Shima Takahiro.

The opinions of such top professionals as Javier Mariscal, Alberto Corazón, Óscar Mariné, Manuel Estrada, Isidro Ferrer and Pep Carrión, serving as jury members, has also assured the success of the annual event.

More information: Tel.: + 34 902 922 252 / www.franciscomantecon.com / E-mail:comunicacion@terrasgauda.com

News source: entornointeligente.com
Section: Notas de prensa (Press Releases)
Date: 14/12/09
Country: Venezuela

The spanish winery TERRAS GAUDA selects a venezuelan designers poster as a finalist among over 1,400 entries from all over the world

Finalist 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition The Spanish winery TERRAS GAUDA has selected a poster from Venezuela among the finalists from among over 1,400 entries received from 45 countries all over the world for the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, maintaining the event's high level of international participation for the fourth year running.

The Americas were particularly well-represented in this year's competition, with over 200 posters from countries including Venezuela, the United States, Canada, Barbados, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. In Africa, entries were received from South Africa, Tunisia and Mauritius. In Asia, from Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and China. Oceania was represented by entries received from Australia. Graphic designers from Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tunisia took part for the first time.

In Europe the participation from Italy was particularly high, with 360 entries. While France, Poland, Russia, the UK, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden and Serbia also had a significant presence.

News source: NEGOCIO & ESTILO DE VIDA
Section: Estilo de Vida
Date: 15/12/09
Country: Spain

Bodegas Terras Gauda

Wine and its infinite options

At Christmas, wine is attractively packaged, packed with olive oil as a gift or combined with other wines for a more complete gift. For example, one option with Terras Gauda, the flagship wine of the O Rosal-based winery, in the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin area, is a two-pack, on sale for 28.40 euros.

News source: REVISTA AR
Section: Gastronomía (Gastronomy)
Date: December 2009
Country: Spain

WHITE WINES

	We are the world's largest producers of white grapes, and in recent years white wines have been reinvented: with ecological wines, whites with the body of a red, whites with style and originality … doing away with the old stereotype of "only for fish"
Abadía San Campio. Albariño (18 €), by B. Terras Gauda

News source: ABC
Section: Galicia
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

A winner for the Francisco Mantecón competition and a new image
for Terras Gauda

First prize 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition R.G.
VIGO. The Spanish winery TERRAS GAUDA has awarded prizes to four posters from the United States, Spain, Estonia and Poland from among over 1,400 entries received from 45 countries all over the world for the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, maintaining the event's high level of international participation for the fourth year running.

Over the eight editions of this competition, Terras Gauda has managed to involve leading figures at the forefront of International graphics design, with at total of over 8,000 entries from 83 countries all over the world.

The event's success is based on ongoing strengthening of national and international communications, constant updating of the invitations to participate, the links between the competition and academia through universities all over the world, and the involvement of top designers by serving on the juries that select the winners.

News source: EXPANSIÓN
Section: Galicia
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

First prize for the Valencia-based Ángel Luis González

'FRANCISCO MANTECON' The first prize in the eighth edition of the poster-design competition organised by the winery Terras Gauda has gone to the Valencia-based designer Ángel Luis González. The first runners-up prize was for Julia Anne Luke, from Los Angeles, the second for Robi Joeleht, from Estonia, and a special mention went to Dorota Cichon, from Poland. Over 1,400 entries from over 45 countries were received for this year's edition.

News source: LA VOZ DE VIGO
Section: La Mirilla
Date: 12/12/09
Country: Spain

El «Francisco Mantecón», an annual Xacobeo

REPORT
Soledad Antón

Benchmark in graphic design. That's what the Francisco Mantecón Poster Design Competition has become in only eight years. The figures speak for themselves. In the first edition 70 posters were received, all from within Galicia, while the latest edition attracted 1,400 entries from 45 countries on all five continents.

Such a meteoric rise is not easy to explain. For the answer we must turn to the ship's pilot, José María Fonseca, and the team he has surrounded himself with, including María José Sánchez as the ideal co-pilot. Last Thursday, at the prize-giving ceremony, Terras Gauda's ability to attract the best was once again quite clear.

prize-giving ceremony Francisco Mantecón Some old stalwarts and many of the finalists were a bundle of nerves in case Fernando Ónega ("the winery's official chronicler", in the words of the Galician president) announced their name. But this was the highest concentration of politicians per squire metre that had ever been seen: Feijoo, Louro, Caballero, Molares, Porro, Roberto Varela, Domínguez, López, Figueroa, Méndez … «There are almost as many dignitaries here as there are posters,» was Ónega's opening remark.

Naturally the journalist, in his usual style (just as well!) had more witty barbs in store to entertain the crow at this special annual event. Especially because he makes sure that the dullness that blights so many events of this type is kept at bay. He referred to the recent arrivals of Obama and Feijoo to their respective presidential offices. "And with that the balance of world power is restored," he said.

Sustainable economics. Ónega left the irony to one side only when he asked those present, particularly those in public office, to open their eyes, because behind such an apparently social/leisure event "what there really is here is an example of sustainable economics. This is like a pilgrimage that is held once a year," he said.

The speaker who was quite serious from the very beginning of his speech was José María Fonseca. And, almost before he had finished his first sentence, he already had the room applauding. He said that even though he knew that many of those attending were not Galicians, he would speak in Galician, a language that some people tried to turn into a problem that did not exist, he said: "It's a perverse stab in the back that we must flee from."

He then spoke of the collective keenness to continue to strive for an appropriate scenario to show off the hundreds of original designs sent in from all over the world. Abel Caballero was the next to speak.

The most exciting part of the evening, just before the Valencia-born Ángel Luis González came up to the stage to receive his award and 10,000-euro cheque as the winner of the 2009 Francisco Mantecón competition, was the speech by Mantecón's widow, Pilar Barreiro: "For many years I've been digging into my memories looking for a fact or an anecdote to convey something of who you were to this audience... so that they can know something more about you than just your name".

The good thing about that search is that it has meant that Pilar has not just looked inside her own memories, but also in drawers, on shelves and in every corner where "Paco" Mantecón left his creative imprint, writings and notes. She found a whole wealth of material and, as she announced on Thursday, has now finally almost finished classifying it. It will soon be available on the Web: "Over the course of all your work during your short life, surfing through cyberspace, opening the eyes not only of those who are close to us but also to eyes far to the north and south, East and west, today and tomorrow, so that they will be able to be only a click away from discovering who the Francisco Mantecón who have his name to this poster competition really was."

After the speeches came an equally long-awaited part of the evening: animated conversation over a glass of wine. The many people seen chatting included Antonio Quesada, García Mañá, Teruca Conde Pumpido, Carmela Pousa, Manuel Buciños, María Xosé Queizán, Pedro Solveira, Merche Castro, César Cunqueiro, Manolo Rodríguez, Mercedes Méndez, Luis Espada, Manuel Sanjurjo … And, of course, Fonseca's band-mates.

News source: FARO DE VIGO
Section: Sociedad (Society)
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

Valencia's Ángel Luis González wins the Francisco Mantecón prize

His design to be the Terras Gauda winery's corporate image next year

NEWSROOM » VIGO

prize-giving ceremony 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón The corporate image of the Terras Gauda winery next year will bear the signature of Ángel Luis González. The Valencia-based designer is the winner of the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, organised by the winery. The designer won a cash prize of 10,000 euros.

The first runners-up prize was for Julia Anne Luke, from Los Angeles, the second for Robi Joeleht, from Estonia, and a special mention went to Dorota Cichon, from Poland. The runners-up receive a prize of 2,000 euros, making a total of 16,000 euros in cash prizes offered by the Terras Gauda winery.

The jury, chaired by José María Fonseca Moretón, Terras Gauda's chairman, selected these four poster from among over 1,400 entries from 45 countries all over the world, maintaining the high level of international participation for the fourth year running. After Spain, Italy was the country with the most entrants (360 posters, with 660 from Spain).

Of the 33 finalists, 20 were from Spain, four from Italy, two from Argentina, and one each from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, Estonia, the United States, Ecuador and Venezuela.

LOver the eight editions of this competition, Terras Gauda has managed to involve leading figures at the forefront of International graphics design, with at total of over 8,000 entries from 83 countries all over the world.

Terras Gauda considers the international media coverage given to the competition to be a key factor in maintaining interest in the event and positioning it as a benchmark for contemporary graphic design.

The eighth edition attracted 1,400 entries from 45 different countries all over the world

Jury

Besides José María Fonseca Moretón, the jury this year was comprised of Pep Carrió (designer), Pilar Barreiro (the artist Francisco Mantecón's widow), Enrique Costas (managing director of the winery), Javier Martínez Vidal (design director of Spanish Elle magazine), Taber Calderón (last year's winner), and Paulino Novo, who acted as secretary.

The president of the Galician Regional Government, Alberto Núnez Feijóo, presided over the prize-giving ceremony in Vigo yesterday, which was attended by over 400 personalities from the cultural, social, business and political worlds, including Santiago Domínguez, the acting mayor of Vigo, and Corina Porro, the chair of the Port Authority.

News source: EL CORREO GALLEGO
Section: Cultura (Culture)
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

Valencia's Ángel Luis González wins the Mantecón

CREATIVITY » Terras Gauda announces the winners of its eighth International Poster Design Competition in Vigo

prize-giving ceremony 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón REDACCIÓN . SANTIAGO

The jury of the 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, has awarded prizes to four posters from the United States, Spain, Estonia and Poland from among over 1,400 entries received from 45 countries all over the world for the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, maintaining the event's high level of international participation for the fourth year running. The first prize of 10,000 euros went to the Spanish designer Ángel Luis González. The first runners-up prize was for Julia Anne Luke, from Los Angeles, the second for Robi Joeleht, from Estonia, and a special mention went to Dorota Cichon, from Poland. The runners-up receive a prize of 2,000 euros.

News source: EL PROGRESO
Section: Vivir
Date: 13/12/09
Country: Spain

PÍLULAS

Terras Gauda

A adega que preside José María Fonseca vén de entregar o premio de cartelismo Francisco Mantecón, que gañou o deseñador valenciano Ángel Luis González, cun traballo que se impuxo entre 1.400 obras presentadas.

PILLS

Terras Gauda

The winery chaired by José María Fonseca has awarded its Francisco Mantecón Poster Design Award to the Valencia-based designer Ángel Luis González, chosen from among 1,400 entries submitted.

News source: DIARIO DE PONTEVEDRA
Section: Vivir aquí / Cultura (Living Here / Culture)
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

O deseñador valenciano Ángel Luis González gaña o VIII Concurso Francisco Mantecón de Deseño

Entrega premios 8º Concurso Internacional de Cartelismo Francisco Mantecón Más de 1.400 obras de todo o mundo participaron este ano no Concurso Francisco Mantecón de Deseño, que convocan as adegas Terras Gauda. A entrega de premios tivo lugar onte en Vigo e estivo presidida por Alberto Núñez Feijóo. O gañador do primeiro premio (10.000 euros) foi o deseñador valencián Ángel Luis González. DP

The Valencia-based designer Ángel Luis González wins the 7th Francisco Mantecón Design Competition

This year over 1,400 entries were received from all over the world for the Terras Gauda winery's Francisco Mantecón Design Competition. The prize-giving ceremony was held yesterday in Vigo, presided over by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The winner of the first prize (10,000 euros) was the Valencia-based designer Ángel Luis González. DP

News source: ATLÁNTICO
Section: ViGO
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

A Valencia-based designer wins the "Mantecón" over 1,400 other candidate

The president of the Galicia Region, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, presided over the prize-giving ceremony for the poster-design awards yesterday, at an event attended by over 400 guests, including the Government Delegate, Antón Louro, the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, and the chair of the Port Authority, Corina Porro.

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NEWSROOM

A new edition of the Francisco Mantecón poster-design competition ended yesterday with the prize-giving ceremony, held at the Pazo Los Escudos hotel. The Valencia-based Ángel Luis González won the first prize of 10,000 euros. The first runners-up prize was for Julia Anne Luke, from Los Angeles, the second for Robi Joeleht, from Estonia, and a special mention went to Dorota Cichon, from Poland. The runners-up receive a prize of 2,000 euros, making a total of 16,000 euros in cash prizes offered by Terras Gauda.

The jury convened by Terras Gauda and chaired by José María Fonseca Moretón (the winery's chairman) was comprised of Pep Carrió (designer), Pilar Barreiro (the artist Francisco Mantecón's widow), Enrique Costas (managing director of the winery), Javier Martínez Vidal (design director of Spanish Elle magazine), Taber Calderón (last year's winner), and Paulino Novo, who acted as secretary. The jury chose these four posters from Spain, Estonia, the United States and Poland from among over 1,400 entries from 45 countries all over the World, maintaining the high level of international participation for the fourth year running.

Europe was especially well represented in this edition, with 360 entrants from Italy. While France, Poland, Russia, the UK, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden and Serbia also had a significant presence. The participants included 660 graphic designers from Spain. The event was also popular in the Americas, with over 200 posters received. In Africa, entries were received from South Africa, Tunisia and Mauritius; and from Asia, from Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and China. Oceania was represented by entries received from Australia. Graphic designers from Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tunisia took part for the first time.

Of the 33 finalists, 20 were from Spain, four from Italy, two from Argentina, and one each from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, Estonia, the United States, Ecuador and Venezuela.

High attendance at the awards ceremony . The prizes were given to the four winners (Ángel Luis González, Julia Anne Luke, Robi Joeleht and Dorota Cichon), at a well-attended event with a large lumber of local personalities from Vigo's social and political life.

News source: ATLANTICO DIARIO
Section: Euro Empresa
Date: 13/12/09
Country: Spain

Winery wins 2009 research award

The O Rosal-based winery Terras Gauda has won the "2009 Research Prize" given by the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences for its study to improve the quality of Albariño wine. It is the only winery in Galicia and one of the few in Spain to have its own special yeast.

News source: EL PROGRESO
Section: Terra - Alimentación
Date: 13/12/09
Country: Spain

TERRAS GAUDA RECOLLE O PREMIO DA RAGC 2009 DE INVESTIGACIÓN POR UN PROXECTO DO CSIC

Terras Gauda recolleu o Premio Investigación 2009 da Real Academia Galega de Ciencias polo "Estudo para a mellora dá calidade do viño Albariño", desenvolvido en colaboración co Instituto de Fermentacións Industriais e a Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, do CSIC, nun acto na sede da RAGC en Santiago. O director técnico de Terras Gauda, Emilio Rodríguez Canas, e os investigadores Carmen Martínez, da Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, e Afonso Carrascosa, do Instituto de Fermentacións Industriais son sos autores do proxecto, unha investigación de 8 anos que permitíu seleccionar 22 cepas autóctonas de albariño especialmente fértiles, produtivas e resistentes a pragas.

TERRAS GAUDA WINS 2009 RAGC RESEARCH AWARD FOR A CSIC PROJECT

Terras Gauda has been awarded the 2009 Research Award from the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences for its "Study to Improve the Quality of Albariño Wine", carried out in partnership with the CSIC's Industrial Fermentation Institute and Galician Biological Mission. Terras Gauda's Technical Director, Emilio Rodríguez Canas, and the researchers Carmen Martínez, from the Biological Mission, and Alfonso Carrascosa, from the Fermentation Institute, are the three authors of the project, which is the result of eight years' research to select 22 native Albariño grape strains that are particularly fertile, productive and resistant to pest attack.

News source: LA REGIÓN
Section: Ecoagro - Actualidad
Date: 12/12/09
Country: Spain

Recoñecemento

Terras Gauda recibe o premio Investigación 2009

Terras Gauda receives the 2009 Research Award
Terras Gauda recolleu o Premio Investigación 2009 da Real Academia Galega de Ciencias polo "Estudio para a mellora da calidade do viño Albariño", desenrolado en colaboración co Instituto de Fermentación Industriais e a Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, do CSIC. O director técnico de Terras Gauda, Emilio Rodríguez Canas, e os investigadores Carmen Martínez, da Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, e Alfonso Carrascosa, do Instituto de Fermentacións industriais do CSIC son os autores do proxecto, que é froito dunha investigación de oito anos que permitiu seleccionar 22 cepas autóctonas de Albariño especialmente fértis, produtivas e resistentes a plagas.

Recognition

Terras Gauda receives the 2009 Research Award

News source: LA REGIÓN
Section: Ecoagro - Portada
Date: 12/12/09
Country: Spain

Suplemento de técnica, economía y sociedade agraria del siglo XXI

Premio Francisco Mantecón a catro carteis

O 8º concurso Francisco Mantecón premiou catro carteis de España, Estonia, USA e Polonia entre unha selección de máis de 1.400 obras chegadas dende todos os puntos da xeografía mundial.

21st-century technical, financial and agricultural supplement

Francisco Mantecón awards for four posters

The eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón competition has recognised four winning posters from Spain, Estonia, the United States and Poland, from among over 1,400 entries received from all over the world.

News source: LA REGIÓN
Section: Ecoagro - Actualidad
Date: 12/12/09
Country: Spain

Premio Francisco Mantecón

O 8º concurso Francisco Mantecón premiou catro carteis de España, Estonia, USA e Polonia entre máis de 1.400 obras

First prize 8th edition of the Francisco Mantecón Redacción: MV

O presidente da Xunta de Galicia, D. Alberto Núnez Feijóo, presidiu a entrega de premios, a que asistiron máis de 400 personalidades do mundo cultural, social, empresarial e político, como o delegado do Gobierno en Galicia, D. Antón Louro, o alcalde de Vigo, D. Abel Caballero, os conselleiros de News source Rural, Cultura e Turismo y Economía e Industria e a presidenta da Autoridade Portuaria, Dña. Corina Porro, entre outros.

O xurado do 8º Concurso Internacional de Cartelismo Publicitario Francisco Mantecón, convocado por Terras Gauda, premiou catro carteis de España, Estonia, USA e Polonia entre máis de 1.400 obras enviadas desde 45 Countryes de todo o mundo, logrando manteñer por cuarto ano consecutivo un elevado índice de participación internacional.

O 1º Premio, dotado con 10.000 euros e que será a imaxen da adega o próximo ano, correspondeu ao deseñador valenciano Ángel Luis González. O 1º accésit recaiu na deseñadora de Los Ángeles, Julia Anne Luke; o 2º accésit é obra do artista gráfico de Estonia, Robi Joeleht; e a Mención Especial firmaa Dorota Cichon, de Polonia. Cada ún destos premiados recibe unha dotación económica de 2.000 euros, co que Terras Gauda reparte 16.000 euros en metálico.

Terras Gauda logrou reunir no Concurso Francisco Mantecón a vanguardia do deseño gráfico internacional nestas oito edicións, nas que concursaron máis de 8.000 carteles procedentes de 83 Countryes de todo o mundo. Este éxito de convocatoria está basado nun refuerzo continuo da labor de comunicación nacional e internacional, a ampliación constante das bases de participantes, a vinculación do certame ao mundo académico a través de universidades de todo o mundo e a implicación de deseñadores de recoñecido prestixio na formación do xurado.

A difusión mediática internacional é un factor clave para manteñer a participación e posicionar o certame como un referente para a vanguardia do deseño gráfico e unha das grandes citas anuais para os deseñadores de prestixio. Só nas tres últimas edicións fixeronse eco do concurso máis de 500 News sources de comunicación xeneralistas, páxinas web e revistas especializadas dos cinco continentes.

Participación 2009

Máis de 1.500 carteles de 45 Countryes de todo o mundo participaron este ano no certame. De Europa destaca a elevada participación de artistas gráficos de Italia, con 360 obras. Entre os participantes hoube 660 diseñadores españoles. A representación de América foi también notable, con máis de 200 carteles enviados. De África recibíronse propostas de Sudáfrica, Túnez ou Isla mauricio; de Asia: de Singapur, Sri Lanka, India o China. A representación de Oceanía é de Australia.

Francisco Mantecón Award

The eighth Edition of the Francisco Mantecón competition has recognised four winning posters, from Spain, Estonia, the United States and Poland, from among over 1,400 entries

Newsroom: MV

The president of the Galician Regional Government, Alberto Núnez Feijóo, presided over the prize-giving ceremony, which was attended by over 400 personalities from the cultural, social, Business and political worlds, including the Government Delegate in Galicia, Antón Loro, the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, the regional ministers of Rural Areas, Culture and Tourism, and of Finance and Industry, and the chair of the Port Authority, Corina Porro.

The Spanish winery Terras Gadua has awarded prizes to four posters from the United States, Spain, Estonia and Poland from among over 1,400 entries received from 45 countries all over the world for the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, maintaining the event's high level of international participation for the fourth year running.

International media coverage is another key factor in maintaining the levels of participation and positioning the event as a benchmark for contemporary graphic design and one of the key dates on the calendar for the world's top designers. The last three editions of the competition alone has received coverage from 500 general media, websites and trade press on all five continents.

Participation in 2009

Over 1,500 posters from 45 countries all over the world were entered for the competition. In Europe the participation from Italy was particularly high, with 360 entries. The participants included 660 graphic designers from Spain. The event was also popular in America, with over 200 posters received. In Africa, entries were received from South Africa, Tunisia and Mauritius. In Asia, from Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and China. And Oceania represented by Australia.

News source: EL IDEAL GALLEGO
Section: Galicia
Date: 11/12/09
Country: Spain

The designer Ángel Luis González wins the Francisco Mantecón poster competition

NEWSROOM » A CORUÑA

The Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, presided over the prize-giving ceremony yesterday at the eighth edition of the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition, organised by Terras Gauda.

The jury awarded the four prizes to posters from Spain, Estonia, the United States and Poland, chosen from among over 1,400 entries from 45 countries all over the world.

The prizes total 16,000 euros offered by the Galician winery.

The first prize of 10,000 euros went to the Valencia-based designer Ángel Luis Gonzalez, whose design will be used as the winery's corporate image next year.

Two runners-up prizes of 2,000 euros each were awarded to the Los Angeles designer Julia Anne Luke and Robi Joeleht from Estonia, with a special mention – also with a prize of 2,000 euros – for Dorota Cichon from Poland.

The prize-giving ceremony, held in Vigo, was attended by over 400 personalities, including, in addition to the regional president, the Government Delegate in Galicia, Antón Louro, the Regional Culture Minister, Roberto Varela, the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, the chair of the Vigo Port Authority, Corina Porro, and the sub-delegate of the regional government in the town, Lucía Morales.

Over 1,500 posters from 45 countries all over the world were entered for the competition. Entries from Europe included, besides Spain with 660 entrants, those from Italy, France, Poland, Russia, the UK, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden and Serbia.

The Americas were also well represented, with entries from countries including the United States, Canada, Barbados, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico, while African designers sent in posters from South Africa, Tunisia and Mauritius.

News source: ATLÁNTICO DIARIO
Section: Vigo 10
Date: 10/12/09
Country: Spain

JOSÉ MARÍA FONSECA MORETÓN
Chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda

"Art and wine almost always go well together"

The chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda, José María Fonseca Moretón, to host the prize-giving ceremony for the Francisco Mantecón poster competition later today.

José María Fonseca Moretón Chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda vigo
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Born in Orense in 1950 and one of the first graduates in Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. A Ministry of Employment technician and financial advisor, he entered the wine world because of his interest, the fruit of his contacts with oenologists when he organised Job Centre vocational-training courses. He currently runs Bodegas Terras Gauda, a benchmark in winemaking in the Rías Baixas area and the organisers of one of the leading international poster-design competitions. At 8 o'clock this evening a ceremony will be held at Los Escudos, when the winners chosen by the jury headed by Fonseca Moretón will receive their prizes.

- What does it take to win this competition?

- It's not my decision, but rather depends on the jury. Still, in general terms, we are looking for two things: a high artistic and creative level, with a striking, impactful design. After all, these are advertising posters we're talking about.

- Do art and wine go well together?

- Almost always, yes. Countries in the Mediterranean arc of old Europe, where there is a winemaking tradition, have given birth to a great many artists. It is difficult to conceive of our culture without wine, and it has always gone hand in hand with art, even in the religious tradition.

- With the prestige that Albariño wines have now achieved, to they still need a poster to present them to the world?

- It can only ever be a good thing. The rest of the world has only discovered the qualities of Albariño and other leading native Galician strains relatively recently, compared with French or German grapes, which have a long history, in some cases without really deserving it. Some of our goals have been achieved, but we have to go further to turn these wines into a benchmark. Albariño still needs to make the jump to be accepted by the public at large.

"By becoming known abroad, some of our goals have been achieved, but Albariño still needs to make the jump to be accepted by the public at large"

- Despite such achievements as your "etiqueta negra", is it a struggle to make crianza matured wines with Galician grape varieties?

- Our "etiqueta negra" isn't really a crianza wine; it's fermented in new oak casks. For true crianza maturing, White wines of Albariño type still have a long way to go. Its great potential lies in the explosion of aromas and the freshness of the wines made without crianza techniques. We can become more sophisticated and ensure that its characteristics last longer in the bottle, but that's work that the oenologists will have to put their talents to. Progress has been made but to market it you have to maintain the quality throughout your entire production.

- And are red wines the next test for the sector in Galicia?

- It is something we lack, but it isn't easy. Although there's a huge amount of potential in Galicia with a wide variety of fine Straits, it's difficult to find a niche among the reds. But we are moving forward.

José María Moretón will be at the Francisco Mantecón prize-giving ceremony today.

News source: ABC
Section: Galicia
Date: 18/11/09
Country: Spain

Premio á investigación para Terras Gauda

José María Fonseca, presidente de Bodegas Terras Gauda, recibiu onte na Real Academia Galega de Ciencias o Premio Investigación 2009 polo "Estudio para a mellora da calidade do viño albariño", desenvolto en colaboración co Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales e a Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, do CSIC.

Research award for Terras Gauda

Yesterday at the Royal Galician Academy of Science, José María Fonseca, the chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda, received the 2009 Research Award for the "Study for the Improvement of the Quality of Albariño Wine", developed in partnership with the CSIC´s Industrial Fermentation Institute and Galician Biological Mission.

News source: El Correo Gallego
Section: Galicia
Date: 18/11/09
Country: Spain

Recognition from the RAGC for technology transfer

AWARDS » Award-winners from the CSIC, USC, Terras Gauda and Tragsa value the bridges between research and business Terras Gauda - 2009 Research Award

Honour, pride and the urge to keep researching. These were the words shared yesterday by all the award winners recognised by the Royal Galician Academy of Science (RAGC) at the tenth edition of its awards, which are intended to be "an injection of optimism" for researchers to "feel obliged to go further," according to the RAGC chairman, Ernesto Viéitez.

Experts from the CSIC, University of Santiago, Terras Gauda and Tragsa opted for initiatives like this, to guild Bridges between research and business. In all its awards, the academy acknowledged the transfer of technology, to build society´s awareness of the "need and importance" of applying research to the worlds of business and finance.

The 2009 Research Award, with a prize of 6,000 euros, went to the Estudo para a mellora da calidade do viño Albariño (Study for the Improvement of the Quality of Albariño Wine), led by the researcher Carmen Martínez, from the Galicia Biological Mission (Pontevedra), and Alfonso Carrascosa, from the Industrial Fermentation Institute in Madrid (both CSIC centres), in partnership with the wine firm Terras Gauda. The winery´s chairman, José María Fonseca, said that "what is not known does not exist," adding that it is "extremely important to do this work, as it not only helps to do better business but also benefits society."

Martínez said that even though winemaking wins many awards, "they very rarely have anything to do with research in this field". Carrascosa was pleased to have "brought a technology-transfer process to a successful conclusion".

The honorary mention, awarded for the first time, was for Avances nocoñocemento do patóxeno emerxente de rodaballo Edwardsiella tarda (Advances in Knowledge of the Emerging Pathogen of the Brill Species Edwardsiella tarda), submitted by Beatriz Magariños and Nuria Castro, from the University of Santiago. Magariños said that she was "proud to have competed at such a high level" and that this research would serve for "antibiotics not to be used" in brill production.

Nieves Vidal, in her own right and on behalf of Ana María Viéitez from the CSIC, and María Rosario Fernández and Beatriz Cuenca from Tragsa – whose paper published in the RAGC journal won an award – stressed the contribution of their study to "maintaining forest diversity".

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2010

Inclusion of the rest of Spain and Portugal

Coinciding with the 20thh anniversary of its awards, the RAGC launched its call for entries for 2010, when entries will be accepted for research projects from anywhere in Spain or Portugal. The academy will also reinstitute its award for young researchers (aged under 28), which will replace the one given to the best paper published in the RAGC´s own scientific journal, which has been published for 27 years. The award in the senior category will have a prize of 6,000 euros, with 2,000 for the young researcher of the year. For either of these awards, projects can be submitted in: mathematics, physics, cosmos physics, chemistry, geology, biology, pharmacy, social sciences, economics and technical sciences. Graduates and PhDs may opt for the awards, although in the senior modality at least one of the authors must hold a PhD.

News source: La Voz de Galicia
Section: Sociedad (Society)
Date: 17/11/09
Country: Spain

Royal Galician Science Academy gives award to research on improving Albariño wine quality

Terras Gauda - 2009 Research Award NEWS ROOM | The Royal Galician Science Academy has awarded its 2009 research prize to a study to improve the quality of Albariño wine, carried out by researchers from the CSIC – at the Galician Biological Mission in Pontevedra and the Industrial Fermentation Institute in Madrid – in partnership with the winery Terras Gauda.

In this category there is also an honorary mention for the paper Advances in Knowledge of the Emerging Brill Pathogen, submitted by two researchers from the aquicultural pathology group at the University of Santiago.

Another award went to a paper titled Development of Chestnut and Cork Oak Germplasm Banks By Cryoconservation of Caulinary Apices and Somatic Embryos, by the Galician Agro-biological Research Institute (CSIC) and Tragsa´s Agricultural and Forestry Improvement Department, in Maceda (Orense).

News source: El Economista
Date: 5/11/09
Country: Spain

A toast by Terras Gauda: negotiating an acquisition in Rioja

The Rías Baixas winery launches a project to allow its vineyards to be controlled by satellite using wireless sensors

Javier Romera

MADRID. First was O Rosal, in the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin. Then came the Bierzo D.O., in the province of León, and now, finally, Rioja. Enrique Costas, the firm´s managing director, acknowledged that with the recession new opportunities have arisen and that "Terras Gauda is in a position to buy." When? "No deals have been closed as yet, but we are looking into a number of possibilities," he said.

With 160 hectares of vineyards in one of the most privileged areas of the banks of the Miño, close to the Portuguese border, the Terras Gauda winery produces 1.5 million bottles a year, using three different grape varieties: Albariño, Loureiro and Caíño Blanco, a variety that had fallen into disuse but that the company hopes to recover.

Diversification

Founded in 1989 by José María Fonseca, a wine-loving Galician entrepreneur, Terras Gauda is undertaking its expansion with some very specific plans. The goal of first moving into Bierzo with Bodegas y Viñedos Pittacum and now to seek opportunities for an acquisition in Rioja not only diversifies their production but, above all, consolidates their international business.

"Our main market outside Spain is the EU, and we are particularly strong in Germany and the UK. We are also positioning ourselves in China and Japan and, above all, we aim to grow in the United States." The company has also been the driving force behind one of the most ambitious research and new-technology-development projects in the whole sector. Terras Gauda has launched a project that will mean that next year it will be able to use a network of wireless sensors supported by GIS (geographical-information system) and GPS technology to monitor the condition of its vineyards and grapes in real time. This will mean controlling such factors as the temperature, sunlight, humidity, Ph and nutrient level, and so take action if any anomaly is detected.

News source: TELVA
Section: Gastronomía (Food)
Date: Noviembre 2009
Country: Spain

AT THE WINERY

A Bierzo rosé from Pittacum (7 €)

News source: INTERVIÚ
Section: Panorama
Date: 02/11/09
Country: Spain

Bodegas Terras Gauda 1,400 posters for a prize

The Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition closed for entries on 30 September, with over 1,400 submissions received. The entries come from many different locations, although this year Italy takes the lead with 360 posters, followed by the Americas, with over 200. The competition, which is sponsored by the Terras Gauda winery, features a first prize, two runners-up and a special mention – 14,000 euros in all, in honour of one of advertising and communication´s all-time greats: the poster.

News source: ABC
Section: Galicia
Date: 28/10/09
Country: Spain

The Francisco Mantecón jury meets to make the first cut

E.PÉREZ
VIGO. The Francisco Mantecón Poster Competition, which Bodegas Terras Gauda runs every year, is close to announcing its finalists. The jury for this eighth Edition of the competition met this weekend to make the first cut – no easy task when so many entries are received. Graphic designers from 45 countries have submitted a total of 1,400 posters, with particularly large numbers from Spain and Italy, 660 and 360 respectively. Other countries, including Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tunisia, are represented for the first time.

With designers from such diverse countries as Mauritius, South Africa, India, China, Cuba and Russia the worldwide outreach of this event is further confirmed as attracting some of the leading lights in international design.

News source: LA VOZ
Section: La Mirilla (The Spyglass)
Date: 27/10/09
Country: Spain

The quality of the wine counts, but so does the quality of the label

FEATURE
B.R.Sotelino

Jury´s deliberations for the Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition. The Terras Gauda winery is currently busy on aesthetic matters, which are also part of a brand that focuses on the form as much as the content. This weekend the O Rosal firm welcomed the jury for the eighth Francisco Mantecón International Poster Design Competition to select the finalists and winners from among 1,400 entries from 45 countries all over the world. The New York designer Taber Calderón, who won the first prize last year, travelled from the United States to attend the meeting of the jury, chaired by José María Fonseca Moretón, Terras Gauda´s chairman, and including the top designer Pep Carrió; the art director of Elle magazine, Javier Martínez Vidal; Pilar Barreiro Mosquera, philologist and Francisco Mantecón´s widow; Enrique Costas Rodríguez, CEO of Bodegas Terras Gauda, with Paulino Novo Folgueira, philologist, acting as secretary. Of the over 1,400 posters received, 660 are from graphics designers in Spain, with a high participation for Italy as well, with 360 entries. For the first time entries have been received from Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tunisia, with competitors once again coming from all five continents. The event offers 14,000 euros in cash prizes (10,000 euros for the winner and two runners-up prizes of 2,000 each), as well as a special mention. The Francisco Mantecón Poster Design Awards are a tribute to unique creative talent creator and artist who, among other achievements, was responsible for Terras Gauda´s corporate image from its inception.

News source: Revista SOBREMESA
Section: Últimos tragos (Last drops)
Date: Septiembre 2009
Country: Spain

FRANCISCO MANTECÓN AWARDS premios Francisco Mantecón

Art on the bottle

The most widely accredited and wide-ranging poster competition in the wine World, with, created and sponsored by the Terras Gauda winery (Rías Baixas D.O.), has launched its eighth edition, strengthening its position as a benchmark for graphic designers the world over. Over 6,500 posters from over 70 countries have taken part in previous editions of the competition. The launch, presided over by the winery´s founder, José María Fonseca, and the secretary general of News source Rural, Alicia Villauriz, was also attended by Paloma Segrelle, chair of Siglo XXI, graphic designer Pep Carrió, a key member of the jury of experts, and the journalist Fernando Ónega, who acted as master of ceremonies. The prizes on offer total a 14,000 euros, besides an exhibition of the finalists´ work.

News source: EL MUNDO
Section: Metrópoli
Date: 16/10/09
Country: Spain

INTERVIEW

JOSÉ MARÍA FONSECA

"WE ARE WORKING TO MAKE OUR WINES UNMISTAKABLE"

THE CHAIRMAN OF BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA, CELEBRATING ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY, IS COMMITTED TO RESEARCH

José María Fonseca (Orense, 1950) is the chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda, a group that owns not only the winery that gives it its name, in the O Rosal district of Pontevedra, in the Rías Baixas area, but also Bodegas Pittacum in El Bierzo, while also putting the finishing touches to a new deal in the Upper Rioja. 2009 marks the winery´s 20th anniversary, and the Group is celebrating by publicising its many research projects, based on sustained commercial success – sales were up 33% in 2008, with nearly 1.5 million bottles sold – which in this case does not seem to be at the expense of quality.

Q.- You´ve just finished the grape harvest at Terras Gauda. How did it go?

A.- It´s been fantastic. Not because it´s been an exceptional year in terms of quantity, because we had some problems during flowering and some mildew fungus attacks, but the ripening has been perfect as far as the quality goes, with excellent degree and acidity parameters in the grapes.

Q.- How did you get involved in wine?

A.- I started in the business in 1989. Before that I was the head of the Vocational Training Service in Pontevedra. Back then we ran a lot of course about grape-growing and wine-making, organised by Jesús Requena, who knows a great deal about the wine world. My dealings with him during those courses and the birth of the designation of origin are what led me towards the idea of setting up what has now become Terras Gauda.

Q.- There seems to be some debate about whether it was an error to assign practically the entire identity of the Rías Baixas designation of origin to the Albariño variety. Do you think that time has proved you right with the success among your wines of a combination of Albariño, Loureiro and Caíño Blanco, with Terras Gauda?

A.- Well, I think it has, yes. I´ve always been in favour of multiple-variety wines, although I should say that although our flagship wine is Terras Gauda, we also make a single-variety Albariño, Abadía de San Campio, which falls within the general line of the DO, and indeed is the only Albariño on the wine list at the Nobu restaurants in the United States, for example.

Q.- The many research projects that you have been developing include one to recover the Caíño Blanco variety, which seemed to be set to disappear, and which you are currently growing 95% of …

A.- The old vineyard cultivators in O Rosal used to say: "Caíño is where wine begins", because historically it was considered to be a variety of extraordinary value. Unfortunately, it´s not at all easy to grow, so it gradually was abandoned, even though it´s very complete aromatically and provides a wine with a fantastic structure in the mouth. In 2010 we´ll be launching a wine that features it as its main variety.

Q.- Another of these projects, in partnership with the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), has resulted in the ecotypical-yeast patent obtained from the Albariño variety. What effect will this have on your wines?

A.- Since the winery was set up, we have been working with an obsession: to make our wines unmistakable for consumers. Using our own yeast means takes us a step forward on that road to being unique.

Q.- In 2002 Terras Gauda bought Bodegas Pittacum, in El Bierzo. It seems as though that area is finding it hard to consolidate itself among the major wine-producing regions of Spain, despite the quality of some of its wines …

A.- I never thought we were going to arrive and reinvent the wheel. It´s a major effort for us, and one we´re taking very seriously. And that doesn´t mean making a great wine one year and selling it all; it means doing it year after year and getting better and better. To get it known. To get it sold, case by case. But if you´ve sold someone a case this year you´re going to have to sell him another next year …

Q.- It seems that you are committed to alternative varieties in El Bierzo too. At Pittacum you are developing a red wine with Garnacha Tintorera, outside the designation of origin …

A.- It´s a bold step because we are convinced about what we have got. In our market people welcome special wines and we are sure that this one is going to work. How? By getting people to try it and surprising them, and working hard to consolidate it on the market. MIGUEL ÁNGUEL RINCÓN

News source: EL Country
Section: empresas&sectores (Business & sectors)
Date: 11/10/09
Country: Spain

Wines with R&D from Rías Baixas

Terras Gauda develops patents on vines and wines with the Spanish Scientific Research Council

VIDAL MATÉ

Twenty years ago now, an occupational-training teach at the old INEM in Pontevedra, José María Fonseca, was captivated by the courses on wine-making and grape-growing. And he had an idea. To start up a winery in the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin. He looked for local partners. Manuel Fernández, the chairman of Pescanova, or the bank Caixa Galicia. And Terras Gauda was born. A new winery whose most characteristic feature is a strategy based on research, from the vine, via the yeast, the wine and the cask, to make Galician wines with a difference.

Viñedos de Bodegas Terras Gauda Twenty years is a very short time to establish a winery. However, over the course of only two decades Terras Gauda has positioned itself in the wine sector as a benchmark winery in terms of research and development projects, either undertaken alone or in partnership with the CSIC. Research is allocated an average of 8% of the firm´s turnover, currently 9.4 million euros.

The winery was started up with a small initial investment of 200,000 euros, although this was followed by a cascade, and the group has now invested 9 million euros in Terras Gauda itself, in the Pittacum winery in El Bierzo (León) and in the vegetable cannery A Rosaleira. The winery currently has 170 hectares of its own vineyards, as well as arrangements with partners and grapes acquired from other growers.

The group´s research work began in the vineyards, with the aim of achieving small quality productions of between 5,500 and 7,000 kilos on average. Most of the vineyards are cultivated on trellises, although some now also use the mini-vine system in accordance with local conditions. The winery is committed to recovering the Caiño grape variety, which was on the verge of disappearing because it is the least productive of the local varieties and very sensitive to pests and disease. An added risk is that late ripening means that it is more at the mercy of bad weather. Today, 95% of this variety in the Rías Baixas area is grown in this winery´s vineyards.

In partnership with the CSIC, the firm has patented its own yeast to strengthen the character of its single-variety wines. The winery will use the yeast for the first time this year, applying it to its entire Albariño production.

Another research Project is focusing on studying the optimal times and temperatures for mashing processes.

Again in partnership with the CSIC, they have developed a clone selection process for Albariño grapes to achieve a combination that is resistant to disease and offers the best growing and flavour characteristics for the winery.

Terras Gauda is also working on a project to install a network of wireless sensors in 2010, base don GIS and GPS technology, to monitor the status of their vineyards.

The winery operates in the single-variety young-wine segment using local grapes, and it has developed white wines matured in oak. The firm sells 1.5 million bottles a year. In 2008 export sales grew by 33%, and the firm´s wines are now sold on all the world´s continents.

News source: LA RAZÓN
Section: Suplemento (Supplement)
Date: 27/09/09
Country: Spain

Abadía de San Campio, at Nobu restaurants in America

L.A.

Abadía de San Campio, by the winery Terras Gauda, is the only Albariño-based wine on the extensive wine list from all over the world at the Nobu restaurant chain, owned by Robert de Niro and the chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, in America.

The conditions at the vineyard where the Albariño grapes used to make Abadía de San Campio are grown result in a wine with an characteristic aromatic intensity, with hints of ripe white fruits and citrus.

It´s a broad-tasting, well-balanced wine, bright and fresh, thanks to its lively acidity. Its final touch is pleasant, thanks to the balance between the acidity and sugars. The flavour is long-lasting in the mouth.

WINES
Abadía de San Campio
Winery: Terras Gauda
Designation of Origin: Rías Baixas
Variety: Albariño

News source: EXPANSIÓN
Section: Portada (Cover)
Date: 24/09/09
Country: Spain

CSIC makes Terras Gauda´s yeast a "scientific milestone"

RDI / This year, for the first time, the O Rosal (Pontevedra)-based winery will ferment its entire production using its own microorganisms

Abeta Chas. Vigo

Bodegas Terras Gauda

Research, development and innovation seems to be easy in the hands of Terras Gauda. The winery, based in O Rosal (Pontevedra) and chaired by José María Fonseca, has incorporated these three ethereal concepts into its daily business to such an extent that it has indeed become easy for them. The winery, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has received an unexpected gift as the fruit of the firm´s commitment towards the uniqueness and differentiation of its wines. The Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) has qualified one of the results of the winery's R&D efforts as a "scientific milestone". It is the winery´s very own, patented yeast, which it will use to ferment its musts. Last year the yeast was used to ferment 300,000 litres and this year, for the first time, it will be used for the entire Albariño production – approximately one million litres.

Bodegas Terras Gauda

The qualification of "scientific milestone" is published annually by the CSIC´s various departments for results, awards or events of sufficient importance, impact and exclusivity. This year, in the food science and technology area, the yeast identified as TC-CSIC (from the initials of the winery and the research centre) was granted this qualification. The CSIC scientist Alfonso Carrascosa explained that this microorganism also represents "progress in transferring technology with a direct link to consumers." Carrascosa, who was one of the five CSIC researchers who worked with the winery on the project, said that the result was also the topic of a technology-transfer poster which may be exhibited on the CSIC stand at the Casa de las Ciencias in Seville.

Pioneers

The Spanish patent of the winery´s own yeast is the result of a project that began in 2005 in partnership with researchers from the CSIC´s Biological Mission and Industrial Fermentation Institute. They began by selecting five Albariño yeasts – microorganisms that are usually found on the grape's skin – one of which stood out and was then patented. Terras Gauda is the first Galician winery to have its own patented yeast, "And, as far as I know," Alfonso Carrascosa said, "It could also be unique in Spain." TG-CSIC will be applied to the must when it reaches an ambient temperature of about fifteen degrees. It will stop acting after about a fortnight, on average. Its use instead of pie de cuba – a blend of different yeasts – will allow the winemaker to control the process with steady, regular fermentation, as well as strengthening the character of the grape variety and fruit flavour of the wines made with it.

The patent applies to Spain, and the winery has given the CSIC 49% of the rights to it, thereby retaining control. The winery is now looping into extending it to such countries as Australia and the United States, where Albariño grapes are also grown.

GPS reaches the vineyards

Of the 70 ideas that Terras Gauda´s innovation committee considered, next year one will be implemented to install wireless sensors on an experimental plot. GIS and GPS technology will allow temperature or any pest attacks to be monitored in different parts of the vineyard, taking immediate action as necessary. "The things we are improving," José María Moretón explained, "are very little when taken individually, but together they mean a great step forward".

On Rioja´s heels
The winery is about to move into the Rioja Designation of Origin. It holds about 10% of the capital, through which it may add a partner and financial muscle to materialise the purchase and complete its presence on the International market.

News source: ABC
Section: Galicia
Date: 24/09/09
Country: Spain

Terras Gauda to use GIS and GPS technology to check the condition of the grapes for its wines

Recent studies position the winery as a benchmark for research

E.P. RODRÍGUEZ-SOMOZA
O ROSAL (Pontevedra)

With two decades making wine behind any project the winery proposes, now is the right time, coinciding with the firm´s 20th anniversary, to present new RDI initiatives. Today, Terras Gauda is a byword for research and development. Its milestones include the recovery of the Caíño Blanco grape variety, which was on the verge of disappearing, the study of which has been a differentiating factor for O Rosal-based wineries.

Other projects include, among others, one developed in partnership with the CSIC, based o clone selection, resulting in the first Albariño yeast patent, the only one in Galicia and one of only very few in Spain.

The study of mashing time and temperatures for Albariño, Loureiro and Caíño Blanco grapes is well advanced. And by next year the conclusions will be published of a precision grape-growing project using GIS and GPS technology to monitor the status of vineyards and grapes in real time.

The advances in RDI coincide with recent good news for Abadía de San Campio, which will be the only Albariño to be served alongside the finest wines from all over the world at the restaurants, which are co-owned by the actor Robert De Niro and one of the world´s top chefs, Nobuyuli Matsuhisa.

At the forefront of innovation

Caíño Blanco: Terras Gauda has made a major commitment to strengthening the uniqueness and differentiation of its wines with its project to recover the Caíño Blanco grape variety.

Own yeast: A patent in partnership with the CSIC of the winery´s own yeast, insulated and selected from five different yeast found in its vineyards, following three years of research and tests. This year, for the first time, the winery will foment all its Albariño production with this yeast.

Time and temperatures: The objective is to optimise the mashing of aromatic varieties to bring the wines´ unique characteristics to the fore.

Precision grape-growing: (GIS and GPS systems). To be used to monitor the status of vineyards and grapes in real time: temperature, sunlight, humidity, pH and nutrient levels, to enable immediate action to be taken if any anomaly is detected.

News source: NEGOCIO & ESTILO DE VIDA
Section: Empresas y Bolsa (Business and stock market )
Date: 14/10/09
Country: Spain

Terras Gauda to make wine with a recovered grape variety

Wineries
Also developing a network of wireless sensors to monitor the nutritional status of its vineyards

IGNACIO F. ZABALA

The Galician winery Terras Gauda, under the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the announcement of new areas of research, one of the firm´s hallmarks. Having developed a project to select Albariño grape clones, and obtaining the first patented yeast for that variety, Terras Gauda is now looking to recover the local variety Caíño Blanco and developing sensors to monitor the status of its vineyards in real time.

According to Enrique Costas, the winery´s managing director; Terras Gauda is research-oriented because "that´s where our potential to improve lies". The projects, developed in partnership with the Spanish Scientific Research Council, aim to "minimise the factors that wines vary from one year to the next". For example, with a yeast strain adapted to the conditions of the vineyard or by selecting clones that are resistant to disease.

Terras Gauda´s oenologist, Emilio Rodriguez, explains that the next step is to "develop a sensor that can record the nutritional status of the plants, with special software to interpret the date collected".

Once the multidisciplinary team working on the project "have achieved the results we are looping for, we will install a network of wireless sensors to allow us to apply fertiliser as required in different parts of the vineyard", he said. The second stage, also based on sensors, will provide real-time data on the parameters affecting each stage of the fermentation of the firm´s wine.

The winery has also made an effort to recover the Caíño Blanco grape, which was being abandoned in de Galicia because it is not as productive as other local varieties. It is also the most sensitive to pest attacks, has a longer cycle that means the grapes can only be picked late in the year, and it requires more maintenance if the fruit is to ripen properly.

Currently, 95% of the vineyards under Caíño Blanco in the Rías Baixas area – over 20 hectares – belong to the winery. Now that the vineyards are 20 years old, the research project aims to determine the variety´s grape-growing and wine-making characteristics and potential. "Our goal in the future is to make a wine mainly based on Caíño", Costas said.

News source: LA VOZ DE GALICIA
Section: innova Galicia
Date: 27/09/09
Country: Spain

Bodegas Terras Gauda
Enrique Costas, José Maria Fonseca and Emilio Rodríguez at the winery

Bodegas Terras Gauda extends its research programme

The O Rosal-based company, which was founded 20 years ago, has shown that the unique, attractive qualities of the Caíño grape variety can compensate economically for the setback of its longer ripening cycle

Newsroom
Hardly anyone would dispute that until not long ago the local Caiño Blanco grape variety largely deserved to be considered an "endangered species". But the directors of Pontevedra winery Terras Gauda – which have been nurturing the variety for decades – have now launched new RDI projects to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the O Rosal-based winery and celebrate the recovery of the variety and consolidate it as a profitable fruit.

One of the objectives of the new research is to determine the potential of the grape-growing and ecological characteristics of the Caíño grape as unique characteristics.

RDI now a standard
The new project joins others developed in partnership with the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC): Albariño-grape clone selection and the first Albariño yeast patent. Terras Gauda is the only winery in Galicia and one of only very few in Spain to have its own yeast, which will be used this year for the first time to ferment the entire harvest.

The goal is to determine the grape-growing characteristics of the Galician grapes

The O Rosal-based winery has also made progress in its study of mashing times and temperatures for Albariño, Loureiro and Caíño Blanco following tests carried out in 2008.

The winery is also working on a precision grape-growing project, planning to use GIS and GPS technology next year for real-time monitoring of the condition of its vineyards and grapes.

The completed and newly launched projects are designed to strengthen the characteristics that make Galician wines unique and different, particularly in the case of the Caíño Blanco grape, which is still rarely grown despite the unique characteristics that it gives the wines it goes to make.

Caíño Blanco was disappearing because it is the least productive of all the varieties usually grown in Galicia. Not only is it very sensitive to pests and disease, but it also has a longer ripening cycle, delaying its harvest, with all the associated risks of bad weather. Caíño Blanco is also difficult and costly to grow, because it needs leaves to be removed by hand every year in order for the fruit to ripen properly.

Unmistakable flavour
Despite these setbacks, Terras Gauda has always valued the variety´s qualities and the potential results of its quality and uniqueness for wine-making, and therefore its medium- and long-term profitability. The gamble has been a successful one, as 95% of the Caiño Blanco grapes being grown within the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin are at the O Rosal-based winery, whose wines are notable for their intense tropical and balsamic flavours.

With regard to its taste, according to the experts, the Caíño grape variety is the one with the most character of all those native to Galicia, giving wines volume, smoothness and considerable structure in the mouth. What is known as a complete grape.

Terras Gauda have over 20 hectares of vineyard under the Caiño variety, some of which are over 20 years old, making this the ideal time to explore all the variety´s potential..

THE FUTURE IS TODAY

The latest technology to monitor, protect and maximise the profitability of vineyards

The use of GIS and GPS technology for grape-growing will allow the condition of vineyards and grapes to be monitored in real time: temperature, sunlight, humidity, pH and nutrient levels, to enable immediate action to be taken if any anomaly is detected.

The final objective is to improve the quality of the grapes, since the study will make it possible for Terras Gauda to carry out real-time monitoring of conditions at each plot and so schedule the harvest accordingly.

A further step in this project will be the sensors that the winery plans to implement to determine certain parameters of wine in storage.

Work by the Spanish Scientific Research Council

Terras Gauda had previously patented its own yeast together with the CSIC (calling it "TG-CSIC", after the initials of the two entities), having isolated and selected it from five different types found in the winery's vineyards, after several years' research and fermentation tests, first in the laboratory and then at full scale, blind tasting and instrumental flavour analysis.

The studies showed that the yeast selected strengthens the character of the grape variety and fruit flavours of the Pontevedra winery´s products to an extraordinary degree. This year, the winery will ferment its entire Albariño production with the TG-CSIC yeast, enabling it to remark the differentiating matrices of its wines and give them a recognisable profile, while maintaining the existing characteristics that have given them their character.

The patent on this yeast from Terras Gauda´s own vineyards is a significant step forward, because it assures the quality of the final wine and the flavours of the wine year after year, attenuating the effects of differing weather and harvesting conditions.

The patent on the ecotypical yeast has been selected as one of the CSIC´s scientific milestones in its 2008 annual report..

Success in the United States
One of Terras Gauda´s wines, Abadía de San Campio, has achieved further recognition in the United States. It will be the Albariño – joining a wine list made up of the best wines from all over the world – served at the Nobu restaurant chain, owned by the actor Robert de Niro and one of the world's most highly acclaimed chefs, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa.

MNobuyuki Matsuhisa is considered to be the leading exponent of new Japanese cuisine. His luxurious restaurants include the Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills. Abadía de San Campio will be available to customers at all 13 Nobu restaurants in America, which are regularly visited by such stars as Tom Cruise and Richard Gere.

News source: FARO DE VIGO
Section: Redondela
Date: 24/09/09
Country: Spain

An O Rosal winery implements a grape-monitoring system through Degas

» The firm Terras Gauda strives for precision grape-growing by using new technologies
» The company is researching the potential of the Caíño Blanco grape variety

Bodegas Terras Gauda Eva González
O ROSAL

The O Rosal-based winery Terras Gauda is implementing a novel system to monitor the state of its grapes via satellite, which will come into operation next year. At the same time, they are also developing a research project into a research project to discover the potential of the Caíño Blanco grape variety, which it grows on over 20 hectares of vineyards. As some of the vineyards are over 20 years old, it is now the ideal time to determine their wine-making and ecological characteristics, as the differentiating factor for their wines.

The chairman, José Maria Fonseca Moretón, managing director, Enrique Costas, and technical director, Emilio Rodríguez, explained this initiative yesterday. They also plan to install a network of sensors in their vineyards, supported by a geographical-information system (GIS) and satellite or aerial images linked to the GPS system, to implement precision wine-making that "will enable decisions to be taken with real-time data on the state of the vineyard and grapes, such as temperature, radiation, humidity, pH and nutrient levels, thereby allowing us to detect anything unusual", they explained. The initiative will require an investment of 60,000 euros.

Bodegas Terras Gauda, S.A.

"We are well aware that our priority is to strengthen our flagship product, the wine Terras Gauda, but we are also looping for a profile for another unique wine", which "won´t be made with Caíño", Fonseca said, even though this is the winery that recovered this local variety, of which it processes 95% of the entire Rías Baixas Designation of Origin.

The new projects announced yesterday join those developed with the Spanish Scientific Research Centre (CSIC) for Albariño-grape clone selection and the first patent for an ecotypical Albariño yeast, which will be used for the first time to ferment this year's entire harvest. The winery expects sales to increase by 5% compared with last year, when they sold 1.4 million bottles of the winery´s three brands.

"We are at the forefront of research into vine-growing and wine-making in Galicia", the firm said, mentioning that the patent for the Albariño yeast was published in the CSIC´s 2008 Annual Report, and inviting other wineries to use it for their own research. For international sales, they said the U.S. market was "ideal", because it was free of price-bartering. They are now preparing emerging Asian markets.

The initiative will make real-time decision-making possible

News source: EL CORREO GALLEGO
Section: Sociedad (Society)
Date: 24/09/09
Country: Spain

Terras Gauda to use a sensor system for monitoring its crops

ADVANCE » To be launched in 2010 » Recovery of the Caiña grape announced, and the use of the first ecotypical Albariño yeast to ferment this year´s production

E.P. - Pontevedra

Yesterday the O Rosal-based winery Terras Gauda presented a project it has been working on that will allow it to install a network of wireless sensors next year using GIS (geographical information system) and GPS technologies to monitor the status of vineyards and grapes in real time. The winery also announced that it has recovered the local grape variety Caíño Blanco.

The firm explained that thanks to precision grape-growing it will be possible to monitor such factors as the temperature, sunlight, humidity, pH and nutrient levels, so that immediate action can be taken if any anomaly is detected.

The ultimate goal of this initiative, which was presented yesterday at the winery by Terras Gauda´s directors, is to improve the quality of the grapes, since it will allow monitoring in real time, revealing the changing qualities of each plot and enabling the harvest to be precisely scheduled. Also, at a later date, sensors will be fitted inside the winery to monitor parameters of the wine being stored.

Another of the projects presented yesterday by the Terras Gauda chairman, José Mariah Fonseca, the managing director, Enrique Costas, and the technical director, Emilio Rodríguez Canas, was the recovery of the Caíño Blanco grape variety, which was on the verge of disappearing, since it is the least productive of all the varieties grown locally.

Today, 95 per cent of the vineyards planted with Caíño Blanco in the Rías Baixas Designation of Origin belong to Terras Gauda, who have over 20 hectares under this variety. Some of the vineyards are over 20 years old. In any case, the winery is launching an RDI project to determine the grape-growing and ecological characteristics of this variety as a differentiating factor.

Terras Gauda, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has worked in partnership with the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) to develop the first ecotypical Albariño yeast patent, which it plans to use for the first time on this year´s crop.

News source: LA OPINIÓN
Section: Galicia
Date: 5/10/09
Country: Spain

Novel surveillance procedure to come into operation next year

O Rosal winery implements GPS grape-monitoring system

The firm Terras Gauda strives for precision grape-growing by using new technologies
» The company is researching the potential of the Caíño Blanco grape variety

Bodegas Terras Gauda Eva González
O ROSAL

The chairman, José Mariah Fonseca Moretón, managing director, Enrique Costas, and technical director, Emilio Rodríguez, explained this initiative yesterday. They also plan to install a network of sensors in their vineyards, supported by a geographical-information system (GIS) and satellite or aerial images linked to the GPS system, to implement precision wine-making that "will enable decisions to be taken with real-time data on the state of the vineyard and grapes, such as temperature, radiation, humidity, pH and nutrient levels, thereby allowing us to detect anything unusual", they explained. The initiative will require an investment of 60,000 euros.

Bodegas Terras Gauda, S.A.

The new projects announced yesterday join those developed with the Spanish Scientific Research Centre (CSIC) for Ablation-grape clone selection and the first patent for an ecotypical Albariño yeast, which will be used for the first time to ferment this year's entire harvest. The winery expects sales to increase by 5% compared with last year, when they sold 1.4 million bottles of the winery´s three brands.

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