Bodega Alvides

About Winery and Wines

Ribera del Duero con boast of a relationship of more than 2000 years with the grape and wine: witness the mosaics of the Roman Villa in Baños de Valdearados which are dedicated to the God Bacchus. Many other villas with illustrations depicting typical Roman agriculture exist in Ribera in country estates where the grape was the most important crop due to the suitability of our soil and climate, and our area of Villalba de Duero is no exception as it incorporates the Roman word “villa”:… other evidence is found in terms such as “to pay the Quintanilla”. The vine acquired great importance in the repopulation of this area of the Duero valley from the Moors by the Spanish in the 11th Century. The principal instigators were the Cistercian and Cluniac monks who brought Burgundy and Bordeaux varieties to our region, planting their vineyards under divine protection in the Monastery of Our Lady of the Vine, the most important monastery in the Burgos area or the Ribera.