Quality, elegance, innovation, feeling and evolution. These are the pillars on which five families who shared a passion for wine founded the “Sociedad Vinícola de La Rioja Alta” in 1890. Today, their descendants are still majority shareholders and participate in the management of the winery with exactly the same dreams and the same commitment as their ancestors. Over the course of more than 130 harvests, the constant search for excellence has led this emblematic house to combine the best of its wise winemaking tradition - wine making in American oak barrels, traditional decanting, long periods of aging, etc. - with the most modern production technologies, as evidenced by its unwavering commitment to R&D and innovation, as well as its sophisticated optical grape selection system.
For La Rioja Alta, SA, which today heads a family of wineries including Torre de Oña in the Rioja Alavesa, Áster in the Ribera del Duero and Lagar de Cervera in the Rías Baixas, its own vineyard is the 'one of the key factors in producing high quality Rioja wine from the best harvests. Today, this wine estate in the train station district has more than 420 ha of vineyards in the best areas of La Rioja. The Tempranillo grape dominates their vineyards, but they also have other varieties such as Graciano, Mazuelo, and Garnacha that show the recognizable personality of their brands: Gran Reserva 890, Gran Reserva 904, Viña Arana Gran Reserva, Viña Ardanza and Viña Alberdi .
La Rioja Alta, SA winery has extensive experience in wine tourism, offering its customers, friends and members of the Cosecheros Club - the oldest in Spain - a unique experience in its premises, its rooms, its tasting rooms. , its wine bar and private dining rooms. In addition, their firm commitment to CSR is demonstrated in their environmental actions and their “Viña Ardanza Solidario” program, through which they devote 1% of their annual profits to an NGO developing agricultural projects in the Third World, for which they won the Empresa Social Prize 2017.
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