WHITE GRAPE COLLECTION BEGINS BODEGAS LANGA’S 2023 HARVEST

Last week, Bodegas Langa started the 2023 campaign of the Calatayud Apellation of Origin with its first harvest of white Chardonnay grapes -as usual with this early variety- although this year it has been brought forward a couple of weeks due to the increase in temperatures throughout the peninsula. A harvest that promises to be of exceptional quality, according to the winery, so it is expected to be a great vintage.

Despite the inclement weather experienced by the wine sector as a whole during 2023, César Langa -technical director of Bodegas Langa- has predicted that the quality of its Chardonnay variety will be exceptional, since the grapes have entered with impeccable health and ripening, with lots of color, which bodes excellent wines with great aromas.

He emphasizes that the Spanish drought is causing very rapid ripening with a slight decrease in the quantity of Chardonnay grapes harvested, which could represent a minor drop from the campaign last year. However, because the fruit is at the peak of its organoleptic properties, quality will not be impacted.

The harvest of their red varieties Merlot and Syrah, which is also far advanced compared to previous years, will continue at the beginning of September. However, they still do not have a date set for the harvest of their native red Grenache, which is usually collected well into autumn, being the latest harvest in Aragón and Spain.

Bodegas Langa therefore begins the harvest with optimism and the satisfaction of a job well done, despite a particularly dry year saved by the rains in June. Undoubtedly, if the forecast is fulfilled, they will delight us one more year with an excellent production of select aromatic white wines for exquisite palates.