Traditional Wineries of Baltanás
Cellar B
Traditional winery with a distribution made up of an access staircase or barrel, central nave and 4 adjacent naves. It has the typical elements of the Cerrato wineries: Lagar, Pilón and Prensa. It has an approximate extension of 27 m long
Cellar H
Traditional winery with a distribution made up of an access staircase or barrel, central nave and 4 adjacent naves. It has the typical elements of the Cerrato wineries: Lagar, Pilón and Prensa. It has an approximate extension of 20 m long.
Cellar G
Traditional winery with a distribution made up of an access staircase, a central nave and 10 adjoining naves. It has the typical elements of the Cerrato wineries: Lagar, Pilón and Prensa. It has an approximate extension of 20 m long.
Cellar E
Traditional wine cellar with a distribution made up of an access staircase or barrel, central nave and 1 adjacent nave. It has an approximate extension of 24 m long.
Cellar D
Traditional wine cellar with a distribution made up of an access staircase or barrel, a central nave and 3 adjoining naves. It has an approximate extension of 22 m long.
Cellar A
Traditional winery with a distribution made up of an access staircase, a central nave and 4 adjoining naves. It has an approximate extension of 14 m long.
Cellar F
Traditional winery with a distribution made up of an access staircase or barrel, central nave and 4 adjacent naves. It has the typical elements of the Cerrato wineries: Lagar, Pilón and Prensa. It has an approximate extension of 14 m long.
Cellar C
Traditional winery with a layout made up of an access staircase or barrel, central nave and 5 adjacent naves. It has an approximate extension of 28 m long.
Door
The original doors are mostly made of thick Juniper wood due to its resistance to the elements and the high contrasts of temperatures, conforming to the very squad of the elements that make it up, a lattice that serves as an element of ventilation of the interior space. Some are frankly old and date from the date of construction of the Winery.
Canyon
We are referring to the first element of the stairway, prior to the excavated area. The canyon is an element ahead of the natural profile of the terrain, constituting the beginning of the vault or roof of the descent. It has the width of the stairs and forms the first section of it, penetrating into the subsoil without a solution of continuity. It is built by lateral stone masonry walls and is covered, in some cases by a false lintel vault of stone slabs, in others by small stone masonry threads and others by juniper wood beams.
Armhole
The armholes are the different ships that make up the underground framework of the winery. Dug directly into the ground, they clearly present the mark of the peak in their construction process. They are of elongated proportion and are covered by a more or less pointed or flattened vault. They are simply spaces for curing and resting the wine and may have holes or niches on the sides that contain the vats. The warehouse where the press for pressing the grapes is located is called the wine press, although not all the wineries had a wine press inside, so many of them were used only for storing wine.
zarceras
It is in the zarceras, or points of contact with the exterior, where certain changes in the interior climate can be seen, which indicate exchange processes with the exterior environment through the air current that is established between these constructive elements and the latticework of the cellar door. Therefore, guaranteeing its conservation and proper functioning will be essential to guarantee the conservation of the winery itself. Traditionally, aeration in the cellar had two purposes: on the one hand, to facilitate the removal of carbon dioxide produced during the fermentation of the must, and on the other, to regulate the temperature of the cellar so that it remained stable during said process. The elements of connection with the outside are the chimneys, chimneys, zarceras and unloading or spillways. We can find them with a square or circular section, larger or smaller depending on their use.
Kitchen
The kitchen is a space, generally small, located in an intermediate position along the route of the stairs, in a side niche carved for this purpose. Although we can also find it at the end of the stairs on the side of the main armhole or above, just before starting to go down the stairs. As its name indicates, it was a space where people cooked, serving as a place to rest and meet during the hard work that the excavation of the cellar represented. It has a chimney or chimney and benches carved out of the ground itself or factory-built around the perimeter, even in some cases a larger bench that served as a cot.
Winery
In general there are two arrangements, Lagar at the bottom of the main hole in the cellar, and Lagar arranged parallel to the main hole. Small wineries usually present the press at the bottom of the only armhole they have, while in larger wineries it is where the press can be located on one side or the other of the main armhole. In this last type, the unloading area for the grapes is usually present on the front of the winery's façade, next to the main door. In types with a wine press at the bottom, the culvert is usually a free-standing construction through a small shed with a wooden door through which the grapes are discharged directly into the wine press.
