List of products by brand Galán Portero

In the middle of the last century, Antonio Galán, montillano viticulturist and farmer with great concerns, managed to found a small winery at side of his children. Not many years passed when they realized the enormous potential that Pedro Ximénez had, and despite the difficulty of their preparation and their great lack of knowledge, they decided to dedicate themselves exclusively to the production of these wines.

Bodegas Galán Portero is a family business, located in the town of Montilla, within the regulatory framework of theprotected designation of origin of Montilla -Moriles, famous land of wines.

Origin

Its origin is established in the mid-20th century. The founders, Don Antonio Galán López and Doña Soledad Portero Urbano were a couple from Montilla dedicated to work in the fields. They had struggled to grow, in different locations in the Córdoba countryside, in projects that led them to buy, cultivate and collect, changing lands when a possibility of improvement arose.

At that time, With children already ready to help with the family chores, it was decided to found a small winery, a family business where, as a result of the wonderful vineyards in the region, they managed to produce quality wines. The beginnings were hard, struggling to find a niche in an established and not easy market, such as that of montillano wine.

As was most common, they began making fine wines, taking great care of the production, but they soon realized the difficulty, competition and price fluctuations of these markets, and consequently they decided on something risky but exciting;to make Pedro Ximénez sweet wines. Wines made from sun-drying the grapes to raisining.

In this situation, they decided to advocate for making a wine of excellent quality, despite the complication and cost that that entails. implied. With their vineyard,Antonio and his sons worked hard to produce great sweet wines of recognized quality, taking advantage of the terrain, the climate, and above all the variety of the grape, Pedro Ximénez , lent themselves in a unique way to producing the wine that the winery has taught since then.

Pedro Ximénez

There are several legends about the origin of this wine. Since it was a soldier named Pedro Ximénez who, from the Rhine Valley, brought the first strain to his native Córdoba; even those who claim that the origin is in Portugal or Greece.

The truth is that the genealogy of the vineyards of the Montilla-Moriles region dates back to Roman times. , where more than 2,000 years ago wine, along with oil, was exported in amphorae that crossed the Mediterranean to the capital of the Roman Empire.

The remains of Córdoba ceramics found in the house of Seneca attest that the illustrious philosopher supplied his house with wines from this Andalusian region.

Pedro Ximénez is a grape variety that is morphologically round in appearance, with thin skin, almost transparent. It finds its ideal habitat in dry and hot climates, where it provides generous wines of great quality and high natural alcohol content.

Montilla-Moriles

Its very high sensitivity to humid climates has caused it to stop being cultivated in coastal areas, focusing its most exclusive and highest quality production in our Montilla environment. -Moriles.

The soil is a primary factor in the quality of all wines. In the Montilla-Moriles area, albariza lands predominate, some of them with a high silica content, ideal for the cultivation of our Pedro Ximénez.

This mineral causes an intense refraction of light that advances the ripeness of the grapes by several days with respect to the rest of the area, providing musts at the end of August, with a great richness in sugars.

The existence of aerated, deep, dry soils rich in calcium carbonate, make the terrain of the Córdoba countryside a perfect substrate for this variety.

The particular weather conditions that occur within the framework of our designation of origin make it a unique area in the world for the sunny of the grapes in the raisins.

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