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Bodega COVILOR (Cooperativa Virgen de Loreto)

Founded in 1955

Wineries Covilor it is constituted in the year 1955, under the name Cooperative Agricultural " Virgin of Loreto ". The building bought by the founding partners of COVILOR a family of the village, continues being the headquarters of the Winery, which can be considered to be a model of industrial architecture of the epoch - brick caravista, concrete and steel - that the Wineries of fermentation shelter. In one of his wings stands out a relief of natural stone and that represents a worker pushing the wheel of a press, synonymous of the spirit of the company; but also there are notable the religious mosaics of the Virgin of Loreto and that of the shop of the wine. His facilities are located in the street Antonio Bartual, of The Caves.

In the following years new partners are joining, up to agglutinating to the totality of the vine-growers of the population. Adjacent areas are acquired, realizing successive extensions to modernize the facilities and to extend his capacity of Winery. Always it has stood out for the spirit of innovation of his partners. It was the first Winery in Spain, for the 60s, of a complex equipment installed of vinificación burst of speed.

Our Cooperative was pioneering in the region in the installation of equipments of controlled fermentation, elaborating pink of great quality. There was bottled the ANNUAL pink wine, which was rewarded in 1985 with the Golden medal by the Acadèmia of I saw of the Regne de València.