El Rincón del Artista Tempranillo, Rioja

Built in a "chateau" style, this winery belongs to an exclusively family limited liability company, Bodegas Altos del Marqués S.L., and it´s located in its own vineyards on the outskirts of Logroño.

The winery owns 49 H (120.98 acres) of vineyard distributed in several areas, triangle-shaped, with vertexes in La Grajera (Logroño), Yagüe-El Cortijo and Hornos de Moncalvillo, in one of the highest quality areas of Rioja wine. This quality is due to the richness of the terrain, antiquity of the vineyard, divided into small plots and the lavish care taken in the production phase.

The Cerrolaza family have concentrated their efforts on making a modern high-quality viticulture. In order to obtain the best possible grapes, they apply the latest technology to remove vigour from the vine-stocks, to de-leaf the vines, to prune specifically according to each area and for every type, and to utilize a double-selection in the vineyard and in the cellar. Ensuring that the quality of the grape is the basis for the quality of the wine, the Cerrolaza family focuses on their terrain using the latest technology as the only way of obtaining and guaranteeing great wines. As a result, they obtain wines with identity, an expression of their vineyards.

In the barrel cellar there lie 900 French and American oak barrels with a capacity of 225 litres each. One third of the barrels is renewed every year, so there is always a third which is brand new, another third which is one year old, being the remaining third two years old. Once the ageing is barrels is over, the wine is bottled and stored in metal crates for a perfect balance between fruit and oak. Both the barrel and the bottle cellars are air-conditioned for a perfect control of temperature.