Le retour du vigneron Fernando Chivite

C'est l'un des principaux actionnaires de la cave centenaire Julian Chivite Navarre depuis plus de 35 ans, a rejoint l'équipe de gestion et d'œnologie de la troisième plus vieux établissement vinicole de la Rioja, Marqués de Arviza, Fuenmayor dans la Rioja Alta . Fernando Chivite, l'un des vignerons les plus talentueux espagnol panorama - créateur de la collection de 125 Chivite et vins Arínzano paiement - commence maintenant une nouvelle aventure professionnelle séparés après un an et demi de siècle-vieux président de la cave de la famille Julian Chivite la suite d'un schisme semblait familier.

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.