{"id":367410,"date":"2024-05-29T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=367410"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:33:32","slug":"the-new-frontier-of-miolo-in-northeast-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/the-new-frontier-of-miolo-in-northeast-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The new frontier of Miolo in northeast Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Casa Nova \u2013 When driving into Ouro Verde Farm in Casa Nova, Bahia state, you go through a road flanked by vineyards. At the end of it, several warehouses hold storage tanks, grape processing lines, a cellar, and the headquarters of Bahia-based unit of winery Miolo. From the unlikely semi-arid climate of Bahia come grape juices, wines, sparkling wines, and wine distillates made by one of the leading Brazilian wineries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eloiza Teixeira, oenologist at Miolo: Several grape varietals are grown in the S\u00e3o Francisco Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Ouro Verde Farm was bought by Miolo and other partners in 2001 from a Japanese farmer who had been growing wine grapes there. It was the company\u2019s bet on investing in lands outside the climate deemed ideal for the wine varietals like the one in Rio Grande do Sul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the southernmost state\u2019s Bento Gon\u00e7alves, Italian immigrant Giuseppe Miolo had started planting after arriving in Brazil in 1897. The business was passed on from generation to generation until 1989, when Miolo started producting its own wines instead of just supplying fine grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2001 Miolo<\/a> Wine Group superintendent Adriano Miolo decided for an investment far from the company\u2019s vineyards in Vale dos Vinhedos, Campanha Meridional and Campanha Central in Rio Grande do Sul \u2013 he went to Casa Nova in Brazil\u2019s northeastern semi-arid region to expand the plantation of its previous owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The equivalent of 3 million bottles of the 15 million produced by Miolo come from there every year \u2013 they are wines, distillates, and sparkling wines made from traditional grapes from milder climates. Grenache, mourv\u00e8dre, syrah (which usually result in reds), sauvignon blanc, chenin blanc, verdejo, and moscato (used to make whites) are some of the grape varietals harvested there that results in a whole family of products, one of them named after the farm\u2019s vineyard Terranova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miolo’s 40-year-old plants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Miolo oenologist Eloiza Teixeira says there are plants that still bear fruit even 40 years after they were first planted. \u201cHere we have the chance to make more aromatic wines of a remarkable character,\u201d she says. \u201cSome vines here are over 40 and are very yielding,\u201d Teixeira explains, while a machine separates grapes from bunches and prepares them for pressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a room with 12 stainless-steel fermentation tanks, the stored liquid ferments until it naturally becomes a sparkling wine. There you can taste and smell the floral aroma of the beverage, which will go through a last filtering before moving on to bottling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another warehouse, American oak barrels store a clear beverage like water \u2013 wine distillate. It sits for 15 years inside wood vessels, where it ages, acquires a pale yellow shade, and woodsy flavors and aromas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wines from there hit the shelves in Brazil and elsewhere, and so does the juice made from Isabel and Magna grapes, another product that comes from Miolo\u2019s lands in the S\u00e3o Francisco Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rafael Vieira\/CNA Supplied<\/div>
Marcos Carrieri\/ANBA<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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