Raimat

Raimat is a large-scale winery in Northern Spain founded in the 1970’s. Raimat produces a wide variety of wines every year. Although most of the wine produced is consumed domestically, Raimat is also a large exporter of wine mainly to countries in the European Union.

In order to completely control its wine production process, Raimat grows all of its own grapes. This is extremely difficult because Raimat currently has over 2000 hectares of land under production. This control process requires employees to devote a lot of time to monitoring the grapes and wine throughout the process.

In recent years, Raimat has updated its facilities to make them state of the art. In the past, wine bottles were aged in a large cellar. With time, the cellar became moist which kept the wine from aging well. The wine is now aged in either oak barrels or wine bottles as the picture below shows. The room in the picture below will hold over 30,000 bottles of wine at one time and has bottles that date back to the beginnings of Raimat.

Aging Wine Bottles at Raimat

Two Students Showing Off the Raimat Sign

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