This vineyard is two miles away from the winery at an altitude of 1,348 feet above sea level; the vines are an average age of 40 years of age. The soil is from the terciaria age, composed of clay and limestone.  The surface is 24 hectares, and is planted to Tempranillo, Garnacho, Mazuelo and...

100% Tempranillo from vines which average 50 years of age. All of the fruit is destemmed; the wine is aged a minimum of six months in old French or American oak casks. Bottled unfined and unfiltered and without cold stabilization. Germán calls this— his flagship wine— a “vino de pueblo”, which he...

100% Tempranillo from a 85 year old, single parcel. Foot stomped and 100% full cluster pressing. Fermented in open top barriques and amphora,  aged for 12 months.

The mountains of Sierra de Toloño, with their clay and limestone rocky-soils, are perfect conditions to grow Tempranillo. This is Sandra Bravo's "workhorse", the wine that points the way to some of the most elegant expressions of Rioja Alavessa we've encountered. Harvested by hand, mid-October, the...

60% Tempranillo and 40% Garnacha blended from multiple parcels. Vinified separately in order to get a fresh, and “fluid” wine. A mix of saignee and direct press.

Vitola Reserva comes from vines planted in the 1970s, in slopes facing northwest. Soils are very poor, far from the Ebro river, and very rocky.  The wine is made of 96% Tempranillo with 4% Graciano (for acidity.) It ages for two years in French oak (30% new), and the rest in bottle, before release.

95% Tempranillo and 5% Graciano, from vines planted between 1960-1970 in clay and limestone soils at 550m elevation. Grapes are hand-harvested and fermented in small stainless steel vats with frequent pump overs, completing malolactic fermentation. Aged for two years in new French oak barrels...