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Bodegas Fernández de Piérola

Founded in 1996

Warehouses Fernandez de Piérola, is born in 1996, with the aim to elaborate qualit wines provided with a personality that distinguishes them from the marked standardization that he impregnates to great part of the Riojan broths.

With this objective double, we start a small, familiar Warehouse, departing from the familiar vineyards nailed in Moreda (Rioja - Alavesa), zone of long wine-growing tradition, since this way it is testified by the most ancient documents that gather the existence of our people, dated in the 10th century, and that they inform about the payment of taxes (tithes) for the village "Rivo de Moreta" to San Millán's Riojan Monastery of the Cogolla in the shape of wine and the sending of must - came to the House of the King, for the same motive.

This philosophy of "payment", of correlation vineyard - wine, it is to our judgment fundamental in order that the wines support this marked personality and reflect the singular characteristics wherefrom they come.

For it our Warehouse, it is supplied only of grapes proceeding from Moreda's vineyards, distributed to 50 % between own and foreign.

They are the singular microclimatic conditions and edáficas that enjoy our vineyards (pluviometría moderated; 450 l/m2, fragile areas, great part of they in hillsides orientated towards the south, which allows a suitable luminosity, poor soils, clayey - calcareous, of scanty production, thermal jumps between the important day and the night....) what they allow that ours variety Tempranillo reaches an ideal ripeness.

This basic paper that we give him to the vineyard, probably partly influenced by our origin and familiar tradition, determines us there is necessary to realize a control of the evolution of the vineyards, especially in the epoch that goes from the envero to the vintage, to do a particular vintage, vineyard to vineyard, depending on the sanitary condition and ripeness.

All this without forgetting the part enológica. For it we have provided with one ours modern facilities that assure the suitable one us vinificación (system of despalillado soft, that should avoid fragments of the scratch, warehouses of stainless steel with built-in system of double shirt for control of temperature, pneumatic press that he avoids to break the pips and the consequent disagreeable flavors,).

To mean, with regard to the vinificación, the long maceration that we realize, about approximately 25 days, with two mended diaries, that they facilitate the major possible quantity of matters extracts colourings and tannic, to give to the wines the sufficient structure and body, and that they allow an upbringing in cask of American oak for some 18 months, favoring the natural stabilization of the color and of the substances that take part in the formation of the aroma and flavor.

Likewise and in conformity with the quality and distinction of our wine, we have presented it in a new bottle in Rioja and he would say that in the rest of wine zones of Spain, which differs from the rest in which it is slightly more slender, with a "flared" end of mouth, which reduces the problem of the drip in the service, and in addition he appears without capsule in order that the consumers or prescriptores of the wine, could see and therefore know the condition of conservation of the cork and take the measurements that they consider to be pertinent.

Summarizing, we can say, that our philosophy of Warehouse is the production of wines of high quality, with a profile of trying where they appreciate a few very singular characteristics, considering to the vineyard a determinant factor in the quality, without forgetting the technology enológica, to obtain powerful structured well wines, with body, where they are assembled and balance the aromas proceeding from the Tempranillo with the developed ones in a good and patient upbringing, to obtain complex, intense and elegant wines.