At the end of the nineteen-eighties, six families of farmers in La Rioja – Castillo Garcia, Galán Garijo, Gurría García, Marques Malumbres, Rivas Marques and Ruiz Casas – got together to create the Bodegas de Familia Burgo Viejo winery. This added up to a total of 200 hectares of vineyard cultivated with care and following the winegrowing traditions and age-old knowledge passed down from one generation to the next.
Our vineyards stretch across the entire municipality of Alfaro, from the Ebro valley right up to the slopes of the sierra of Monte Yerga. This extensive surface area offers a great variety of soils and micro-climates, where the Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Garnacha, Graciano, Viura and Tempranillo Blanco grapes are grown, each with its own distinctive features. These grapes are all used to craft the wines of Burgo Viejo.
Our vineyards, which are more than 30 years old on average, include parcels that date back almost a century as well as more recent plantations of Graciano and Tempranillo Blanco, the organic grown varieties of the future.
Thanks to the fact that almost the entire vineyard is owned by the winery, our experts are able to constantly monitor the raw material. This makes it possible to reduce the yields to the point considered suitable for optimum quality, avoiding any type of disease problem with the grapes and deciding on just the right time for harvesting.
Our vineyards stretch across the entire municipality of Alfaro, from the Ebro valley right up to the slopes of the sierra of Monte Yerga. This extensive surface area offers a great variety of soils and micro-climates, where the Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Garnacha, Graciano, Viura and Tempranillo Blanco grapes are grown, each with its own distinctive features. These grapes are all used to craft the wines of Burgo Viejo.
Our vineyards, which are more than 30 years old on average, include parcels that date back almost a century as well as more recent plantations of Graciano and Tempranillo Blanco, the organic grown varieties of the future.
Thanks to the fact that almost the entire vineyard is owned by the winery, our experts are able to constantly monitor the raw material. This makes it possible to reduce the yields to the point considered suitable for optimum quality, avoiding any type of disease problem with the grapes and deciding on just the right time for harvesting.
