Address: Carretera Nacional 232 26330 Briones – La Rioja Spain
Phone: Bodegas +34 941 32 23 32 /Museum +34 902 32 00 01
Website: www.dinastiavivanco.com

The painstaking choice of grapes from each vineyard, controlling the individual fermentation and long maceration, applying the most up-to-date winemaking technology, means having the knowledge of an art passed down through generations and which is reflected in a special love of the wine.

Within the dusky darkness of the bodega, only wine from the best vintages can sit in vats and barrels made from French and American oak, acquiring the nuances from the wood, and heightening the primary characteristics of the wine itself. On reaching maturity, they are then bottled and remain in sleepers until perfection and rounding-off.

The result is a wine which reflects the true character of the different plot, a quality which makes it inimitably personal, complex and full of fine sensations.

The pioneering winemaking spirit of the family is reflected, as well as in the wines, in the experimentation and investigation into different methods of cultivation and winemaking techniques, in the use of less common varieties, or in the ageing in oak from various sources of origin.

The Dinastia Vivanco Bodega is located in Briones, a privileged enclave of the Rioja Alta, in the foothills of the Cantabrian mountain range and on the banks of the River Ebro. It is an area with a mild microclimate and extraordinary calcareous-clay soils that take in old vines with a reduced and selected yield.

The majority of the 300 hectares of vineyards that the Vivanco family own, cover mainly the Briones and Haro municipalities.  Different plots within these vineyards, with micro-climatic characteristics and their own soil, give character and expression to the most outstanding wine of the house.

The main variety of the red grape is the tempranillo, which co-exists alongside  graciano, mazuelo, garnacha and the experimental cabernet sauvignon variety. The white grape varieties which stand out are the viura, although white garnacha and the malvasía are also prevalent.

This is the privilege of being a wine-producer: choosing the most adequate plot of land for each variety; the satisfaction of taking care of each vine; of watching it grow and of selecting its bunches of grapes in order to produce a wine with character, and respecting and pampering its natural environment. With a deep-seated love for a unique challenge that is repeated each autumn with the arrival of the wine harvest.
 
The Museum of the Culture of Wine of the Dinastía Vivanco Foundation offers a stroll through the history and culture of wine, a product associated to mythology and religion with a strong social presence, whose production requires work that gathers the essence of traditional labours,  in the field as well as in the bodega. It is recommended to book in advance, specially at the weekends and local bank holidays.