Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 60% Tempranillo, 40% Grenache. Taken from 30 year-old vines on clay-limestone soils at 650m elevation, pruned in the gobelet style. Hand-harvested. Fermentation is half destemmed grapes, half whole-cluster in stainless steel. 50% of the wine ages for at least seven months in a 1600L ancient amphora; the...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 70% Viura, 30% Calagreño. Calagreño is a rare indigenous variety to the area, sometimes known as Cazagal and possibly comparable to Macabeo, but with more acidity. The grapes for these wines are taken from 30-80 year-old vines on clay-limestone soils at 650m elevation, pruned in the gobelet style. The...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 10 indigenous varieties, a third of them coming from a field blend vineyard, in a centenarian single vineyard called Miralasbuenas, or ‘Facing Goodness’—the name refers to its southerly exposition, prized in a time when fully ripened fruit was not a guarantee. Miralasbuenas is a sand and clay-dominated...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 100% Cariñena. A single terraced vineyard of 60 year-old bush vines, on clay-limestone soils at 650m of elevation. The parcel has deeply limey soils and is mostly north-facing, so there’s very little intense direct heat from the sun. Hand-harvested. Whole-cluster fermentation via carbonic maceration, then...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 80% Tempranillo, 20% Viura. Taken from 30 year-old vines on clay-limestone soils at 650m elevation, pruned in the gobelet style. Hand-harvested. Two days of maceration on destemmed grapes, fermented and aged in stainless steel. Unfined, unfiltered, zero SO2 added. This is Hontza’s ‘glou glou’ entry in...Show More
Organic. Biodynamic. 100% Tempranillo. The vineyards comprising this wine are near the medieval town of Labraza in eastern Rioja Alavesa, at the high elevation of 650m, grown in clay-limestone soil. Vinedos Hontza farms these 30 year-old vines in strict accordance with organic standards, as well as being guided by biodynamic principles. Grape...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 60% mixed white varieties, 40% red. Vinified for the first time in 2021, this small 70-year-old plot is located at 600m above sea level and is surrounded by pine trees. Nine different grape varieties native to the region are coplanted here: Viura, Calagreño, Malvasía Rioja and a significant part of...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 95% Garnatxa tinto, 5% old species of Tempranillo and Calagreño interplanted. Single-vineyard wine made from a 70+ years-old, southwest-facing plot sheltered in a small valley protected from the prevailing winds, in a clayey-calcareous soil at 550m above sea level. The surrounding vegetation is made up of...Show More
Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 100% Tempranillo. Direct press, made in the ancestral method - fermentation completes in the bottle. Unfined, unfiltered, zero SO2 added. ‘Vendedor de Humo’ translates more or less to ‘snake oil salesman:’ this is a Tempranillo, but also—not.