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Reintroducing the white stork in the Castillo Perelada
In the spring of 1998 a pair of storks successfully nested in the gardens of the Castillo Perelada for the first time as a result of the efforts made three years previously when the Suqué Mateu family set up a project to try to help these emblematic birds to settle into this habitat.
With the help of the protected Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Nature Park, the same system of reintroduction was put into practice in the Castillo Perelada, involving an initial investment of 40,000 euros for the adaptation of the gardens. Since then the colony of storks has grown year by year – 10 pairs in 1999, 15 in 2006, 20 in 2007... In 2011 there are 23 pairs that have reared around fifty chicks.
This project has helped to consolidate the stork population in Girona (Catalonia), historically a place scarcely populated with these birds. In 2010 a total of 80 pairs were bred – 54 in the Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Nature Park, 23 in the Castillo Perelada gardens and three more in the Ultramort, Sobrestany and Banyoles municipalities.
Castillo Perelada has, therefore, paid homage to these unusual tenants with the Cigonyes White and Red wines; both made with the local grape varieties Macabeo and Garnatxa to celebrate the success of the reintroduction programme that has been developed since 1995.
WINES CIGONYES CASTILLO PERELADA |
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