Rioja
The DOCa Rioja is located in the north of Spain, on both sides of the River Ebro. It is divided into three large zones: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental. With more than 65,000 hectares of vineyards, each town and terroir have its own personality, making Rioja a unique land.
Red grapes represent 90% and white grapes represent only 10%.
Tempranillo, 88% of the red, is the most important grape and is at the heart of Rioja’s best wines. It makes abundantly fruity, light wines and has a special affinity with oak-ageing, becoming graceful, silky and perfumed with time.
Depending on the time the -red- wine remains in the barrel, it is classified as
Crianza (aging in oak barrels and bottles must be a minimum of two calendar years),
Reserva (minimum of thirty-six months, with a minimum time of twelve months in oak barrels),
Gran Reserva (minimum of time in barrel of twenty-four months, followed and supplemented with an aging in bottle of at least thirty-six months).
Alvaro Palacios
Alvaro Palacios spent his childhood in his parents’ winery, Palacios Remondo, in Rioja.
Instead of making branded wines, Alvaro Palacios got a more ambitious vision to make Great Classic Wines!
Then, his search led him to Priorat, in Catalonia, where Garnacha traditionally reigns supreme.
Alvaro Palacios has reinstated the reputation of the wild, isolated region into a legend in its own right.
In the late 90s, Alvaro Palacios launched a winery in Bierzo with his nephew Ricardo.
On the death of his father in 2000, Alvaro Palacios took over the family winery in Rioja.
