2021 Finca San Martin Crianza, Torre de Oña

In 1985, a Cuban businessman with a passion for wine decided to build his own winery in Rioja Alavesa. Initially, Don Leandro Vázquez acquired 15 hectares of vineyards at Páganos in Laguardia. Over the next decade, he expanded to 45 hectares. The philosophy of Torre de Oña was to be summed up in five words: “Terruño. Serenidad. Elegancia. Singularidad. Intemporalidad.” – terroir, serenity, elegance, individuality, timelessness. More specifically, Don Leandro set out to produce high-quality modern wine that expressed the exclusive characteristics of a prestigious Rioja Alavesa estate.
By 1995, he decided that the best way to take that vision into the future was to sell to an organisation which would honour his philosophy and maintain the winery he had built with such dedication. He turned to La Rioja Alta S.A and the rest they say is history.

The harvest is done by hand in boxes, with bunches selected in the vineyard. The grapes are transported to the winery where they undergo natural alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. The wine is aged for 16 months in new American oak barrels made by our in-house coopers (60%) and in French oak barrels that have previously contained two wines (40%). We carried out three traditional rackings by candlelight, from barrel to barrel, to remove the sediment by hand and to avoid aggressive filtering. Bottled in November 2022.

Grape
Tempranillo

Country
Spain

Producer
La Rioja Alta

Region
Rioja

Types
Red Wine

Size
750ml

Vintage
2021