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La Rioja Alta

La Rioja
Haro (La Rioja), Spain

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Quality, elegance, innovation, feeling and evolution are the pillars on which the five founding families erected our winery in 1890 and built a way of living, feeling and producing wines of the highest quality that continue to evolve subtly, perfectly adapting to new tastes.
This is how the permanent pursuit of excellence started; a pursuit that continues into the twenty-first century with identical enthusiasm. We draw the best from our winemaking tradition and wisdom (our own cooperage, manual racking, long aging periods, etc.) and combine it with the most modern winemaking technology.
Today, our wines are an international exemplar of the great wines of Rioja and our brands are present in the best restaurants across all continents.
In the difficult art of creating great wines, we combine the wisdom of tradition and technology.
In addition to the century-old winery in Haro, we have modern facilities located in Labastida, Páganos, Anguix and O Rosal, where we make wine from our own grapes with the help of the most advanced technology.
Oak is at the core of the aging process, and we manufacture our own barrels (which currently number about 25,000) using completely artisanal methods. We import the wood mainly from the United States and dry it in the open air for two years. Our coopers make every barrel in the cooperage of our hundred-year-old facilities in Haro. Every six months, we manually rack every barrel at candlelight. It is an art to enhance the development of the wine, removing sediments in a natural way and monitoring each barrel individually.
After a stay in barrels, the wines continue aging in the bottle, where they polish their personality, rounding off and fully developing all their qualities.