Bodegas Fernández Eguíluz in Ábalos
Bodegas Fernández Eguíluz is a family winery located in Ábalos a village in La Rioja Alta.
"We are keeping alive the heritage of previous generations, taking great care of our 14 hectares of vineyards which is distributed in small plots of twisted vines in the three zones, high, medium and low of Ábalos, the Sonsierra Riojana".
They are characterised by their wines of carbonic maceration.
Fernández Eguíluz Visits and Wine Tourism in Ábalos
Visit to the winery and tasting at Fernández Eguíluz:
For those who wish to spend a pleasant time around wine in our facilities, we offer two options:
- Visit to the winery and tasting of 3 wines. Price 10€.
- Visit to the winery and tasting of 5 wines, with premium wines. Price 25€.
Visit to a vineyard and tasting in Ábalos:
We also go out into the countryside. There we count our annual cycle, we visit cave huts and winepresses We will then go to the small family winery where we will taste the wines which, of course, will be different every year, expressing the conditions experienced.
Tasting: Price 30€.
(Duration: 2h)
Wines from Bodegas Fernández Eguiluz in Ábalos
Peña la Rosa : Bodegas Fernández Eguíluz:
Peña la Rosa Young Red: Tempranillo.
Vineyards from 40 to 100 years. Poor, calcareous clay soils. Plots located in the middle and upper areas of the municipality. Vineyard mostly in a glass.
Peña la Rosa Young White: Viura 90% and Malvasia 10%.
Vineyards from 40 to 100 years old. Poor, calcareous clay soils. Plots located in the medium and high areas of the municipality. Goblet-trained vineyard and manual harvest.
Peña la Rosa Grandfather's Secret: Tempranillo.
Vineyards from 40 to 100 years. Poor, calcareous clay soils. Plots located in the medium and high areas of the municipality. Mostly goblet-trained vineyards.
Breeding of 12 months in barrels of 225 French oak.
Peña la Rosa Selected Vintage: Tempranillo.
Vineyards from 40 to 100 years. Poor, calcareous clay soils. Plots located in the medium and high areas of the municipality. Mostly goblet-trained vineyards.
Breeding of 24 months in barrels of 225 American oak.
La Cantarada Bodegas Fernández Eguíluz:
La Cantarada de los Mozos: Tempranillo 100%.
Vineyards of between 40 and 100 years. Very poor, calcareous clayey soils.
Ageing in French oak barrels. Barrel of 225 litres, 12 months.
La Cantarada de los Mozos: Grenache 100%.
Fresh Tempranillos grown in two distant areas, but at similar altitudes and with late harvests.
Aging in barrels of 600 litres of French oak, 12 months.
La Cantarada de los Mozos: Tempranillo and Viura.
Grapes from a single plot, San Prudencio. Vineyard over 100 years old. Very poor, calcareous clay soils.
Ageing in French oak barrels. Barrel of 340 litres.
La Cantarada de la Mozas: Viura 100%.
Vineyards of over 90 years old, Romalache. Very poor soils, sandstone with large slabs.
Ageing in French oak barrels. Barrel of 500 litres, 12 months.
La Cantarada de la Mozas: Turruntés 100%.
Vines over 90 years old, Romalache. Very poor soils, sandstone with large slabs.
Aging in barrels of French oak. 225-litre cask, 12 months
You can purchase any of the Wines of Bodegas Fernández Eguiluz through its online shop.
A family winery in the village of Ábalos
Bodegas Fernández Eguíluz is a family project, Carmelo and Pilar Fernández Eguíluz, children and grandchildren of winegrowersWe give continuity to what our parents created and what our grandparents instilled in us since we were children, walking beside them among the vineyards.
We have inherited a love of our landscape, respect for old vinesthe passion and romanticism that goes with it, the taste for the traditional elaborations, the passion and the romanticism that goes with it. want to continue to live on this land and from this land.
Peña la Rosa wines in Ábalos
Innovation and tradition go hand in hand in this winery born on year 1989when the family decides to undertake the sale of labelled wines. Up to this point, our parents had made wine to sell to other large wineries that knew how to market it, a common activity in Ábalos.
As we like to tell you, we are characterised by our carbonic maceration winestraditional production, which we have never wanted to abandon, and we are committed to that "old freshness".The youthfulness and that so much sought after now, the ease of enjoyment they provide us with and for keeping those old vines on such old slopes that they give us. white wines for ageing that express terroir on their own.
Our grapes are always harvested by hand, with selection in the vineyard and the transfer to the warehouse is in boxes of 10 kilos for small projects or trailers of no more than 3500 kilos, always looking for the best way of transport. the best possible grape.
Ábalos, a village in La Rioja Alta
Ábalos is one of three villages in La Rioja on the left bank of the river Ebro.
It has 260 inhabitants and it is located in an area where the star crop is the vid.
As a heritage site, it is worth highlighting the St. Stephen's Churchthe house of the Viceroy of Naples, on palace of the Marquises of Legardaas well as several hermitages spread throughout the jurisdiction.
If you fancy a walk, you can go as far as Peña de la RosaThe remains of what used to be the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Rosa, patron saint of Ábalos and the one who gives her name to some of our wines, can still be seen on the hill.
