This winery has been handed down through many generations. In present day, Maria Cruz Garcia and her husband Carlos Aliaga do the farming and winemaking in their 80 hectare farm in the Ribera Baja since 1999. There is a lot of pride here in working “the old way” meaning low sulphites and indigenous yeasts. The areas has a desert climate, lowest rainfall in Spain, and a wind called “Le Cierzo”, which keeps the vines free of fungus and mildew. Ribera Baja, at the southern tip of Navarra is a river plain, essentially the basin of the Ebro, between Aragon and La Rioja. Here there is more Tempranillo grown than Garnacha. The soils are Quaternary terraces and sedimentary effluvia with limestone bedrock and loam on higher terraces.
