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FRANCE

Last week Gruart La Mancha has started out in the French market, with our Director’s visit, Mr. Madrid, accompanied by the sales representative, the firm Aquitaine Millésime, to some of the most important Château, such as Château Margaux (1), Château Pedesclaux (2,3,4) or Château Léoville Poyferre (5), among others.

THE LOVE FOR THE WINE WORLD

Last Thursday, we had the pleasant surprise of receiving in our facilities a personage of the world of the wine of our town. Enrique Martín Peñasco has been an important winemaker, also, president of the Valdepeñas Regulatory Council and is a friend of this company since its creation. The reason for the visit is simply,…

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IMPORTANT NEWS

Due to differences of opinion with the CELIEGE organization, the company has decided not to renew the Systecode certification. Also, since the new BRC certification combines a quality certification and a food safety certification, we dispense with AENOR.

FRESH AIR

From this week two new professionals will join our team. On the one hand, Federico González Iáñez, who will hold the position of finance director of the company. He graduated in Business Studies in the University of Granada, immediately after completing his studies he began to work as an Accountant in different companies, so he…

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THE REAL DIFFERENCES

In fact, we put a lot of effort trying to demonstrate the security provided by our stoppers, as a difference with other manufacturers, in our manufacturing process and traceability control, but just a few times we include in these differences those that come given “by heaven”. To be more accurate, through our region’s weather. LEVEL…

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CASTILLA-LA MANCHA TELEVISION RECORDS THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE OF HIGH QUALITY CORK STOPPERS AFTER THE CORK HARVEST

A team of the program ‘Ancha es Castilla-La Mancha Televisión’, of Castilla-La Mancha Television has moved to Valdepeñas in order to record the process of manufacturing of cork stoppers, once the cork harvest period has finished this year, in the facilities of Gruart La Mancha. The reporter Kiko Fernández has participated, in a very graphic…

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END OF 2017 CORK HARVEST

On 28 June we published the arrival of the first lorry with cork to our facilities. Even with four days in advance we must announce that we have already finished the 2017 cork harvest. The reason why we have finished these four days ahead of schedule has been the nature itself, since with the prolonged…

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A VISIT TO THE HEART OF THE CORK HARVEST

Every year we try to organize a visit for those customers who feel a special interest in knowing the cork harvest and also in knowing first-hand where and how is obtained the raw material from which come the cork stoppers that will cork your wines later. This year we have been visited by our customers…

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NOW, BESIDES……..

For years we have tried to make our own an expression in our  talks about cork stoppers: ‘the cork stopper and the wine’, A PERFECT MATCH! Now we can also recognize that culture and wine have always got on with each other perfectly. We would like to thank a person close to our company and…

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WE HAVE ALREADY THE BRC CERTIFICATION

On 12 May 2017 we announced in this blog that we had passed the audit to obtain the BRC Global Standard for food safety. After a few weeks waiting, officially we already hold this new certification. The BRC is one of the strictest certifications of the food industry, granted by the British Retail Consortium, which…

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