Some ingredients belong to a season.
Others seem to hold the whole season within them.
The grape is one of them.
It arrives just as summer begins to fade, when the light turns softer and more golden and the countryside begins one of its oldest rituals: the grape harvest.
That is why we have chosen the grape as the guest ingredient for this new edition of Brunch Collection.
Not only for its flavour, but for everything it represents.
Before the wine, there is the grape
We are used to finding it in a glass, but everything begins much earlier.
With a bunch of grapes.
With months of waiting.
With a particular land, the sun, the work of those who tend the vines and the decision of knowing exactly when the time has come to harvest.
The grape harvest is one of those rituals repeated from generation to generation. It reminds us of something we value deeply at Patio del Posadero: good things need time.
Grapes can be fresh, sweet, sharp, roasted, dried or fermented. They can become food, wine and even memory.
Perhaps that is why they have been part of Mediterranean tables for thousands of years.
Córdoba can also be told through its vineyards
To talk about grapes in Córdoba inevitably means talking about Montilla-Moriles.
Our region is home to one of Spain’s historic wine denominations. The names Montilla and Moriles were legally protected as early as 1932, although winemaking traditions here stretch back much further.
At the heart of this landscape is the Pedro Ximénez grape, a variety deeply adapted to the climate and soil of Córdoba.
From it come remarkably different wines: young wines, wines aged in traditional earthenware vessels, Finos, Amontillados, Olorosos and the extraordinary sweet Pedro Ximénez wines.
One grape capable of telling many different stories.
And that fascinates us.
From the grape to our own family story
Our relationship with wine goes far beyond the wine list in our bistro.
With Ariza & Cazzola Family Collection, we wanted to create something far more personal: a small collection of wines that would speak about us, our children and the two lands that are part of our family story: Córdoba and Verona.
Each bottle has its own name.
Ernesto, Emma, Ettore, Évora and Promise.
Five very different wines, created with small family-run wineries and produced in extremely limited editions, with each bottle individually numbered by hand.
We are not interested in producing large quantities.
We want to preserve something.
A moment, a vintage, a family story.
That is why our collection consists of just 500 bottles of each label, with only 250 bottles of Promise.
A collection conceived more as a memory than as a production.
And within it, two wines bring us directly back to Córdoba.
Évora, our organic Fino from Montilla-Moriles, made from Pedro Ximénez grapes and aged under a veil of flor. Dry and saline, with notes of almond, toasted bread and yeast. A limited edition of only 500 individually numbered bottles.
And Ettore, our organic Pedro Ximénez from Montilla-Moriles: sweet, deep and enveloping, with notes of raisins, honey, cocoa and candied fruit. Again, produced in an edition of just 500 bottles.
Two completely different expressions of the same land and the same grape.
The real luxury: knowing how to wait
Perhaps that is why we love harvest season so much.
Because it speaks of patience.
Of picking only when the right moment has arrived.
Of allowing transformation to happen without rushing.
Of accepting that every harvest will be slightly different from the one before.
It is a philosophy very close to the way we understand Patio del Posadero.
Small by design.
Working with the seasons, local producers, small batches and experiences that do not need to be repeated in exactly the same way.
Brunch Collection No. 2 · Harvest Time
This month, the grape also finds its way onto our table.
Sometimes fresh.
Sometimes roasted.
Sometimes hidden within a recipe.
And, naturally, also in a glass.
Brunch Collection No. 2 · Harvest Time is our small celebration of that moment of the year when fruit, landscape and wine come together.
Because before every bottle, there was a bunch of grapes.
And behind every bunch of grapes, there is always a story.