Bodegas Señorio de San Vicente

Señorío de San Vicente is based in the Rioja municipality of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, place of origin of great wines. Everything starts in a vineyard with an exceptional location, La Canoca, with an indigenous almost extinguished variety planted, Tempranillo peludo, with special conditions to give birth to complex and age-worthy wines. The result is a major wine that is named after the winery.

This was the first prominent venture of the...

La Canoca vineyard, planted in 1985, provided the grapes for San Vicente: 18 hectares of trellised vineyards with high plant density geared to obtain yields of approximately one kilo per vine. They lie on calcareous clay soils and rugged terrain on the south facing slopes of the Sierra Cantabria hillside. The variety is Tempranillo peludo, a type of Tempranillo with a characteristic furry leaf underside.

For the first time, a red wine from the modern era dared to disregard the traditional Crianza sign and was sold with the same back label as a young wine. The meaning between the lines was that the amount of time spent in oak was not a synonym of quality. Rioja had woken up to modernity and the Eguren family would become one of its most staunch advocates.  The concept of wine (one vineyard, one variety, one winery, one wine) has remained intact...