A dream come true, Barón De Ley is a winery which was devised and founded in 1985 by a small group of prestigious Rioja professionals which decided to create a project which was unique at that time in the Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja: a winery modelled on the Médoc châteaux, bringing together all the conditions that make a wine a work of art. With this objective, the creators of Barón De Ley acquired the Imas estate, within the boun...
Ever since the creation of Barón de Ley in 1985, the vineyards have played a vital role in the project. The idea of producing an “estate wine”, a wine in which the enologist merely interprets the unique character of each vintage, meant first finding a vineyard capable of expressing all the qualities of our land. Already, back in the 16th century, Benedictine monks originating from the Monastery of Irache, who tended the vines in these plots, r...
In the last few years, the panorama of Spanish wines has experimented a grat dynamism with the appearance of new concepts of wines called "de alta expresión", "de autor", " de pago".... as an answer to the new quality trend of the various markets. This new scenario also arose a process of research at Baron de Ley, that we have been modelling and perfectioning until the arrival of its first fruit: our Finca Monasterio. Trying to avoid clichés, ...
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