Visit with tasting and aperitif from La Rioja
Do you want to know the essence of the first organic winery in Rioja? Would you like to live a unique winemaking experience in a family environment?
Viña Ijalba offers you, just a short walk from Logroño, a unique visit where you will enjoy a complete explanation of the cultivation of the vineyard and the winemaking process following organic and environmentally friendly techniques. The tour begins in our natural museum of native varieties. We then continue to the vineyard, located around the winery, where you will learn about the viticultural work that takes place throughout the year. We will continue to follow the same process as the grapes in the winery, visiting the fermentation tanks and the barrel room.
During the visit we show them La Rioja, its Qualified Designation of Origin, the peculiarities of our winery and vineyards and the secrets of our organic winemaking. The visit will end with a tasting of three organic wines and an aperitif from La Rioja.
The visit will end with a tasting of three organic wines and an aperitif from La Rioja.
Wine bar Sobre la bodega
25 years of recovering terrain and native grape varieties. Viña Ijalba owns around 85 hectares (this number increases slightly every year) of vineyards spread throughout the region surrounding Logroño, San Vicente de la Sonsierra and Valle del Najerilla. All our vineyards are planted on top of obsolete open cast mines in an effort to care for and restore the environment. Our wines are made with classical Riojan grapes as well as minority autochthonous grape varieties like Maturna Tinta and Maturana Blanca.
Built in 1991 and provided with the best technology on the market for the production of quality wine.
The winery is located on an old quarry and equipped with a very modern infrastructure in order to elaborate quality organic wines.
Viña Ijalba is innovation, research and development, differentiation and sustainability. The winery was constructed in 1991 and the building is modern with a focus on up-to-date technologies and processes in order to elaborate quality wine.
The winemaking bay has a capacity of 1,250,000 litres, with stainless steel tanks and wooden vats of French oak. The area boasts a pneumatic press, equipment for temperature control, carbonic maceration vessels and much more.
All the processes in the winery are being carried out with the utmost respect for the environment. We recycle waste and purify our waste water.
We harvest 70% manually with a rigorous grape selection in the vineyard, while the rest (30%) is mechanically harvested.
The wines are aged in 1.500 classical french and american oak barrels of 225 litres resting in the aclimatized subterranean barrel hall.
At Viña Ijalba, the principles of organic wine production are applied throughout the entire process and a focus on sustainability is always present.