Come join us for our Saturday wine tasting

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Saturday April 27, 2013

Tasting from 11:00am until 5:30pm

Special Guest:

Alfonso Fernandez Fontecha

Export Manager at Vina Ijalba

IJALBA VINEYARD WAS FOUNDED IN 1975
BY DIONISIO RUIZ IJALBA

The planting of the first vineyard was signed in the town of Villamediana of Iregua (near Logroño).

Don Dionisio, known industrialist of La Rioja, is principally engaged in the extraction and sale of gravel and agglomerates. As a result of the open pit mining used in the extraction of these gravels, he was left with poor soil, with shallow depth of agriculturally useful land, very fertile and abundant stones. In these areas useless farming is where Don Dionisio planted vineyards.

Analyzing quality viticulture in La Rioja, it has always been located on marginal lands, in those where you could not plant any other crop, land slopes, shallow and less fertile soil, where the strains gave an small production but high quality. Clearly, the vineyards of Bodegas VINE IJALBA are situated on lands entirely similar to those of traditional winegrowing in La Rioja, which unfortunately for economic reasons and mechanization has been abandoned 

We would also like to thank everyone who voted for us as Best in San Antonio 2013 Current!

We won Best Wine Shop in San Antonio!