Vineyards

The winery boasts approximately 100 hectares of its own vines, created at the time by selecting and purchasing grapes from other historical wine-growers in the region .

The grape varieties, of having proven adaptation to the floor and climate riojano are:

RED - The indigenous and prominent Tempranillo grape, complemented with Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano .
WHITE - The basic one, Viura, supplemented with Garnacha and Malvasia.

The vineyard lies in the angle that the left bank of the Najerilla River makes with the right bank of the River Ebrointo into which the Rioja Alta flows. It has smooth layers of clayey-lime soil, an average height of 500m above sea-level and annual recordings of 2100 hours of sunlight and 450l/m² rain. It also has an average temperature of 14º but, in summer, a day/ night temperature difference of 30-15º is registered, all undoubtedly lending qualitative benefit to the grape. Our main vineyard is found in the ‘Olagosa' spot (olaga = gorse) from where our Crianza and Reservas get their name.

All these fore-mentioned aspects, together with the use of trellises when cultivating, take full advantage of the air and sun.

Careful pruning and methodical monitoring of the vine's vegetative cycle means quality takes precedence over quantity, culminating in a maturation control of the crop that establishes the precise moment harvest should begin. This is according to the grape's ripeness in each spot and parcel, ever mindful that the quality of a good wine is based on vines that carry the signature of the land and transfer it to the grape.

Harvest is carried out in a structured and organised way, according to maturation and quality control for each individual parcel and the grapes are selected in 3 groups.