Wine Sierra Cantabria, Reserva, Rioja DOCa, 2009

Wonderful beverage wine Sierra Cantabria Reserva can be used at any time. For its production uses Tempranillo grapes grown on private vineyards Eguren family in the valley between the river Ebro and the ridge of the Sierra de Cantabria. The uniqueness of this place is that the mountains, protecting vineyards from exposure to cold winds, help to create a special microclimate favorable for growing grapes with intense flavor. Berries reach a maximum maturity of the beginning of October, and that's when manual harvesting begins with vines older than 30 years. Before the production of wort, berries carefully sorted and separated from the ridges. Fermentation takes place for 8 days while maintaining a temperature of about 30 ° C. The maceration takes two weeks and performed daily during wort pumping. For wine aging for 18 months in equal proportions used barrels of French and American oak, 80% of them - the new, and 20% - two-year.

Dynasty Eguren (Eguren) is winemaking in the Rioja region since the 19th century. This is a very respectable family has made an enormous contribution to the development of winemaking and has become one of the first to make great terroir wine competently combining centuries-old traditions and the latest achievements in the field of winemaking and viticulture. Currently Eguren brothers own three farms in Rioja - Bodegas Sierra Cantabria, Senorio de San Vicente and Vinedos de Paganos, chief enologist which is Marcos Eguren - the best specialist in the Sierra Cantabria regione.Vina Eguren family started producing in the midpoints not 50s the last century.
Sierra Cantabria wine produced since the founding of Guillermo Egurenom in 1957 eponymous winery, located in the town of San Vicente de la Sonsierra Rioja region. Today, this production is known far beyond the borders of Spain due to its unique wines. Eguren family believes that every wine must pass all of the features of the region, with its unique characteristics of the land and climate, so many years working in this direction.