Bodegas Protos

Founded under the name Cooperativa de Peñafiel in 1927 by a group of local winegrowers, Bodegas Protos was the first commercial winery of the area. The name Protos comes from the Greek word “First”, underscoring the trailblazer character of the company.

Over the following decades, the Spanish wines of Bodegas Protos became ever more popular, both locally and internationally. Thus, in 1970 the ageing facilities were expanded with the construction of 2 km of underground galleries in the mountain underneath the Peñafiel castle. In 1982, Protos relinquished its trademark “Ribera Duero” to allow for the creation of the DO Ribera del Duero, which subsequently became one of Spain’s most prestigious wine producing regions.

Inaugurated in 2008, Bodegas Protos’s headquarters in Peñafiel, Ribera del Duero, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Alonso Balaguer, is an environmentally conscious, site-specific masterpiece of contemporary architecture. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the impressive 20,000-square-meter building can produce up to 3,5 milion bottles of wine per year.

In 2006, the Protos winery began producing white wines in La Seca (Valladolid), DO Rueda, under the name Protos Verdejo. The winery celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2017, and in 2020 it unveiled its new facilities in DO Cigales, famed for its rosé wines. The wines of Bodegas Protos are currrently sold in over 90 countries across the five continents.

• Year of foundation: 1927
• Address: Bodegas Protos, 24-28
• City: Peñafiel
  
• Province: Valladolid
• Zip code: 47300
  
• Country: Spain
• Phone number: 34 983 878 011
  
• www.bodegasprotos.com
• Guided visits? Yes
• Wine tourism services? No

Designation of origin:

Ribera del Duero, Rueda, Cigales.

Red wine varieties:

Tempranillo, Grenache, Syrah.

White wine varieties:

Verdejo, Albillo, Viura, Sauvignon Blanc.