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Valdecamellas Notebook Fresnillo de las Dueñas · Ribera del Duero
Four issues a year.

The Notebook

The Notebook is written by the house. Four issues a year, on the vine, the soil and the trades of these three villages.

Valdecamellas · Vol. I Edited in Fresnillo de las Dueñas Start reading

The four issues

No. 01 · Autumn 2025
Valdecamellas The Notebook I The arithmetic of the subsoil Vol. I · No. 01 · Autumn 2025
No. 01 Autumn 2025
No. 02 · Winter 2026
Valdecamellas The Notebook II The year has a pause Vol. I · No. 02 · Winter 2026
No. 02 Winter 2026
No. 03 · Spring 2026
Valdecamellas The Notebook III Three weeks a year can be lost in Vol. I · No. 03 · Spring 2026
No. 03 Spring 2026
No. 04 · Summer 2026
Valdecamellas The Notebook IV The week the grape decides its colour Vol. I · No. 04 · Summer 2026
No. 04 Summer 2026 Latest issue

The notebook comes out four times a year, and only when there is something worth saying slowly.

I Vol. I · No. 04 · Summer 2026
Essay · 13 min Vine leaf against the August sun
Essay

The week the grape decides what colour it will be

By Valdecamellas 13 min
Vineyard science · 12 min Cracked soil in August
Vineyard science

The reserve nobody can see

By Valdecamellas 12 min
Climate · 11 min Dusk over the vineyard
Climate

Twenty degrees between noon and dawn

By Valdecamellas 11 min
II Vol. I · No. 03 · Spring 2026
Essay · 13 min A bud opening in April
Essay

The three weeks a year can be lost in

By Valdecamellas 13 min
Botany · 11 min A bunch just after set
Botany

Ten days in June that set the size of the harvest

By Valdecamellas 11 min
Crafts · 10 min A furrow opened between the rows
Crafts

Turning the soil, and the argument against it

By Valdecamellas 10 min
III Vol. I · No. 02 · Winter 2026
Essay · 09 min Fog over the dormant vineyard
Essay

The year has a pause, and almost everything fits there

By Valdecamellas 09 min
Crafts · 07 min Oak in the cellar
Crafts

Notes from the cooperage

By Valdecamellas 07 min
Climate · 10 min Storm over the vineyard
Climate

Yearbook of the sky, plot by plot

By Valdecamellas 10 min
Cellar · 12 min Barrels in the cellar
Cellar

Cataloguing the silence of the barrels

By Valdecamellas 12 min
IV Vol. I · No. 01 · Autumn 2025
Essay · 18 min Winter pruning in the vineyard
Essay

What cannot be seen when the vine sleeps

By Valdecamellas 18 min
Vineyard science · 14 min Roots in a soil section
Vineyard science

The arithmetic of the subsoil: how water moves between November and February

By Valdecamellas 14 min
Botany · 11 min A leaf about to fall
Botany

The fallen leaf: what it tells before leaving

By Valdecamellas 11 min
Notes · 06 min Pruned canes
Notes

A provisional dictionary of words we do not translate

By Valdecamellas 06 min
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