Return of the winemaker Fernando Chivite

This is one of the main shareholders of the centenary winery Julian Chivite for over 35 years and has joined the Management Team and Oenology of the third oldest winery in the Rioja, Marqués de Arviza, Fuenmayor in Rioja Alta. Fernando Chivite, one of the most talented winemakers Spanish panorama - creator of the Collection 125 of Chivite and wines Arínzano - starts now a new professional adventure, separated after a year and a half of century-old president of the family winery Julian Chivite following a schism sounded familiar.

This family tear is one more than, with a background of crisis and change, shaking the Spanish wine, involving Codorníu owning families, the Alvarez of Vega Sicilia and in Rioja, to Martinez Bujanda and Martinez of Bodegas Faustino.

Arviza Marquis has 48 hectares of vineyards in Rioja Alta, with strains of up to 70 years old, and its facilities comprise two 1874's buildings that have been adapted to current processing needs. But his charm, the style of the great 'maisons' in Reims and Epernay, resides in a subterranean legacy whose wealth does not recognize its modest facade. Buried more than 12 meters deep, the ships are kept in stalls original drafts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Fernando Chivite will work closely with the management team, the Ruiz Clavijo, and Adriana Laucirica (winemaker of the winery). According to Chivite says "My goal is to deepen the differential style wines with character, respecting above all the vineyard and variety away from conventional wines so we spent the wood into the background, and empower the most of the fruit offers the variety of grape ".

The winemaker, besides providing his personal touch to the current range of the winery, designed from the start of new products to the warehouse and coordinate future projects that the property be held soon in other wine growing regions. Among them, the acquisition and management of a winery in Rueda with the same features and philosophy Arviza Marquis-a unique enclave in the village of Rueda, and small production of high-end wines.