La técnica de las feromonas (Raimat)

La técnica de las feromonas
16, November, 2008

extracted from Raimat website

Pionera en España, Raimat llevó a cabo una experiencia piloto basada en técnicas de confusión sexual. Se trata de llevar a cabo el control biológico de la temida Lobesia botrana o gusano de la uva sin necesidad de productos específicos y, al mismo tiempo, hacer frente a la principal causa de pérdida de calidad en la producción vitícola.

La experiencia que se inició en el 2003 permitió minimizar el impacto sobre la producción vitícola de Raimat, crear valor añadido a los vinos a partir de uvas sin tratamientos con insecticidas y apostar por una viticultura sostenible y ecológica con el cultivo del medio y la optimización de los recursos naturales.

Confusión sexual
La técnica de confusión sexual consiste en evitar el apareamiento entre machos y hembras y por lo tanto la puesta, y reducir al mínimo las siguientes generaciones (la Lobesia tiene cuatro generaciones en cada ciclo vegetativo de la viña). Para ello, se utilizan unos difusores de feromonas que confunden al macho y así se evita que se apareen.

Raimat merlot 2004

Raimat Merlot 2004

Raimat

this used to be my favourite wine of this cellar, but unfortunately, I must say that the last times that I tasted it (mainly at la fira del vi de la Mercè and this month) I have not enjoyed it as much as in the past. Maybe I hadn't a good day. It happens sometimes with some wines, but there are others that are always great.
get a look at the outstanding and modern website. Fantàstic! Tomorrow I will post a very intesting new extracted from their website...

Asti Allini

Asti allini

As you can observe looking at the shape of the bottle, it is a sparkling wine. Although I never buy cava/champagne because I do not enjoy them, this is not the case with moscatos d'asti. Better flavour, smell, sensations than cava/champagne. Open your mind and try this very different product. It was bought at Lidl. Probably you will not be able to find it now, but for sure you will find similar products in specialized shops.

Peñamonte semicrianza 2004

Peñamonte semicrianza 2004

http://www.bodegasriojanas.com/torreduero/presenta.html

It was a surprise for me to find this wine. I knew the young and the crianza ones since long time ago, but I discovered the semicrianza during this month.
In my opinion it is much more interesting the young and the crianza than this one. Even although its price is closer to the young one (below 3 eur) than the crianza (5,5 EUR) I think that the young one is more interesting than this semi-crianza.
In addition, bodegas torreduero has changed the labels. Theoretically this is a much modern design. In my opinion the classical one was much better. Specially for the crianza one. This new model is not appropriate if you want to advertise a quality product. Look at their website. It is not updated and you will find the former design.

San vicente 2004

San Vicente 2004 DO Rioja

http://www.eguren.com/ingles/marco.htm?pagina=sanvicente/index.htm

Although the name is not very glamurous, this is an OUTSTANDING wine. Worth to taste it. The unique inconvenience is the price, which is around 38 EUR.
This is a wine with wonderful texture and body, outside of the rioja mainstream. May be this is not a surprise. Eguren family is also the producer of an outstanding DO Toro wine: Numanthia. One of these days, I am going to comment about it...

Lepanto PX

Lepanto PX

http://www.gonzalezbyass.com/

This brandy is produced from the distillation of carefully selected wines, this exceptional Solera Gran Reserva Brandy has aged, during the last 3 years from its prolonged ageing process in the traditional system of Criaderas and Solera, in butts with one of Gonzalez Byass best Sherry wines, “NOE”. With an intense amber colour, with bright mahogany shades, the nose feels its raisiny undertones, reminiscent of the butts where it aged. To the palate it is smooth, elegant, slightly sweet and silky. Alcohol content: 36% , price around 30 EUR. In my opinion it is worth to taste it. You will enjoy this brandy, although my favourite one keeps on being Jaime I .

Cal Blay 25

Cal Blay

C/ Josep Rovira 27, Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Barcelona
http://www.calblay.com/

This is an outstanding restaurant. Modern cuisine, very fashion restaurant, good quality and reasonable prices. You can check the menu in the second photo. Please, click to enlarge.
These are some photos of the 22 fixed price menu (apetizer, starter, main course, dessert, wine, bread, and coffee). Worth to visit it!

three diferent kinds of bread

apetizerssalad

rice

octopus

crepe with icecream

icecream