Bodega

Small family-run winery established in San Vicente de la Sonsierra more than one hundred years ago, in 1870. Bodegas Teodoro Ruiz Monge makes wine on site, apart from the wine ageing process, using the traditional carbonic maceration technique. Teodoro Ruiz Monge was one of the first wine growers from La Rioja to produce and sell wines with his own labels in the past century. His son José Luis, aka Itu, is launching a new range of artisan wines made of grapes from carefully classified plots and varieties.

David Moreno is a family-run winery founded in Badarán in 1988. It was a pioneer in the development of wine tourism in Rioja. Standing at the heart of Monasteries Route (Yuso and Suso) and the Camino de la Lengua (Way of the Spanish Language), the winery is one of the most popular with visitors interested in the culture of wine. David Moreno, Monasterio de Yuso and Vobiscum are the labels that best represent the winery. The vineyards are in the municipalities of Alto Najerilla (Rioja Alta), less than 6 kilometres away from the winemaking establishment. The soil is predominantly clayey and clayey/high in iron. The old vines are high, which gives the fruit their special character. The winery is based in a region of Rioja whose winemaking philosophy and special characteristics are at the core of an array of excellent-quality wines.   reservas@davidmoreno.es (wine tourism) +34 941 36 73 38 comercial@davidmoreno.es (domestic sales) +34 941 89 49 19 export@davidmoreno.es (exports) +34 941 89 49 19

Paco Oliván, con una larga trayectoria para otras e importantes bodegas de Rioja, edificó su sueño en torno a una privilegiada finca agraria de propiedad familiar en Ventas Blancas, en el entorno de los municipios de Lagunilla y Santa Engracia de Jubera. Se trata de un lugar, un entorno, privilegiado con una viticultura de altura (650 metros de altitud de media) y prácticamente en la Sierra de los Cameros. Alba y Sara, hijas de Paco, ya se ha incorporado a un precioso proyecto de vinos de finca y parcelarios con una extraordinaria personalidad e identidad.

Javier Arizcuren is an architect whose family has been growing grapes and making wines for ages in Quel, Rioja Baja. In 2011, he started managing the family-run estate, where he added value to the traditional Mazuelo and Garnacha grape varieties in Sierra de Yerga, convinced as he was that the wine-growing known-how of his ancestors and the centuries-old local vineyard practices were to be revitalised. In 2016, Javier opened the first urban winery in central Logroño, where he makes and stores his wines following a fully artisan wine-making method.

Bodegas González Puras stands in the traditional winery quarter of San Asensio, where it has an old, small wine cellar that has been completely refurbished and is open to the public. The wines are stored there in exceptionally good natural conditions. Esteban González and Elena Puras run both the vineyard and the winery, making a whole array of young wines – white, red and claret –, as well as crianza and reserve wines.

This small winery in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, run by the Eguiluz/Mendoza family, grows its own bush-trained vines. In the vineyards, only sustainable farming practices are used. And in the winery, only premium wines are made. Cupani is the old name of Tempranillo, and the family picks the best grapes from their best plots to make only a limited number of bottles – 20,000 in total – of Cupani, Rielo, Baskunes and Sir Cupani limited-edition wines.