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THE WINERY
The Jean Leon winery was designed and built in 1964, in the Bordeaux Chateau style. It stands at the centre of the estate, at one of its highest points, and is surrounded by the company’s own vineyards.

The external appearance of the winery has undergone few changes, and it maintains the same classical presence it had almost 40 years ago.

However, from the time it was built, the inside of the Jean Leon winery has always been home to the latest technological advances for the production of wines of the highest expression.

The winery’s philosophy has always been oriented towards quality, elegance and limited production so that individualised control of all wines throughout the process can be ensured. This is why, despite the technical advances incorporated by the winery, many tasks are still performed in a manual and traditional way, thus guaranteeing the perfect monitoring of all processes.

Oenologist Jaume Rovira continues to oversee all wine production, contributing the knowledge accumulated over many years working on the estate and in the winery.

The Jean Leon winery boasts a fine team of staff with extensive experience. Especially worthy of mention is our pago team, which performs all tasks manually, allowing us to carefully select the grapes both in the vineyard and on the selection table at harvest time.

Amongst all the winery’s installations, we can highlight the stainless steel vats with refrigerated jackets: all the red wines are fermented in these vats, as are most of the white wines. As well as being very hygienic, they allow for precise control of the fermentation temperature, which means that more fruity aromas and greater freshness can be obtained.

Next, we find its underground cellars, with a capacity of up to 3,000 casks. These cellars maintain a natural, stable temperature (between 13ºC and 15ºC) all year round, as well as a suitable degree of humidity for ageing in 225-litre casks and posterior bottle ageing.

Wines are despatched direct from the winery to both the national and international markets. The temperature of the despatch area is controlled to ensure that it does not rise or fall as this could affect the wine’s evolution.

Each of the bottles of wine is checked manually before being boxed, this means that we can be certain that all Jean Leon wines leaving the winery meet the quality and presentation requirements of our internal norms.

Today as always, the Jean Leon winery continues faithful to the dictates of its founder and bases its work on quality, tradition, and continual experimentation with the aim of producing superior wines, year after year.

General view of the winery and the new visitor centre

The underground cellars with oak casks

Cellar for bottle ageing