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1.1 ORIGIN

The winery Viña Ijalba was founded in 1975 by Dionisio Ruiz Ijalba, with the plantation of the first vineyard of the firm in the municipal area of Villamediana de Iregua Mr Dionisio, a well-known industrialist in La Rioja, has as his main business the extraction and marketing of gravel and chipboards. As a consequence of the opencast mining that was used in the extraction of that gravel, he was left with poor soil, with very little ground depth useful for agriculture, little fertile and with a lot of stones. It was in these useless farming lands, that Mr Dionisio planted his vineyards.

Analising the quality winegrowing in La Rioja, this has always been located in the peripheral lands, those in which no other crop could be grown, hillside lands, with little ground depth and little fertile, where there was a small production from the stocks but of a great quality.

It’s plain to see that the vineyards from the winery VIÑA IJALBA are situated on lands totally similar to those of the traditional winegrowing lands in La Rioja, which, unfortunately, have been abandoned due to economic and mechanization reasons.

1.2 VINEYARDS

VIÑA IJALBA now has 80 hectares of its own vineyards available, spread out in various municipal areas around Logroño, San Vicente de la Sonsierra and Valle del Oja.
All the vineyard, is original in that it is planted on abandoned opencast mines which have been restored from an environmental point of view, having received several national and European prizes for the restoration undergone.

As a consequence of the location of the vineyard, our soils are poor, with little depth and limy, which oblige the vine to reduce its energy and its grape production, improving in this way its quality.

We have been practising ecological farming in all our own vineyards since 1994 (Community Regulation 2092/91), this implies that we do not use herbicides, nor chemical fertilizers, nor synthetic phtyosanitary products, only natural products. Fruit of this work Viña Ijalba obtained the first ecological viticulture wine in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja.

In reference to the grape varieties we only use the traditional ones from La Rioja, investigating the development of minority native varieties (Graciano, Manturana Blanca and Tinta, etc). Fruit of this work Viña Ijalba presented in 1995 the first Graciano varietal wine in the history of La Rioja.

1.3 WINERY

Built in 1991, with a modernist style, it is provided with the best existing technology in the market for the making of quality wines.

The production premises has a capacity of 1.250.000 litres, it is provided with stainless steel tanks and wooden vats made of French oak, pneumatic press, control equipment for the cold fermentation temperature, carbonic maceration, etc.

Viña Ijalba is the first winery in La Rioja which has been certified with the ISO-14.001 regulations (Environmental Certificate), performing all the winery processes in a natural way, being strictly environmental, without chemical additives, recycling waste and treating our sewage waters.

The innovative system of treating sewage water through a green filter has been included in a European environmental protection project LIFE due to its originality.

Since 1999 we carry out our grape picking in 20 kg boxes which allow us to make a manual selection of all the grapes from our vineyards, bunch per bunch using exclusively healthy and totally mature grapes for our wines.

We have also made a strong effort in recuperating the elaboration of a whole grape for our “Solferino” wine, as we have also done with the treading of these grapes.

For the maturing of our wines we have an underground conditioned barrel room in which 3.000 barrels made with the best French and American oak are settled.

2. OUR WINES

2.1 WINE PRESENTATION

2.2 WINES

2.1 WINE PRESENTATION

At Ijalba our main aim is to offer quality products, for this reason we have chosen an original and modernist presentation.

2.2 WINES

T he wines of VIÑA IJALBA, are the result of the conjunction between a traditional and an ecological vineyard, a modern winery, operative and technologically advanced and an original presentation with a special bottle that guarantees a better conservation of the wine. Definitely a great wine, healthy and without pesticide waste.

IJALBA reserva

IJALBA SELECCION ESPECIAL

This wine is the maximum quality indicator of the wines from Viña Ijalba. It’s the only wine in the world with elaborated with 50 % Graciano and 50 % Tempranillo.
Type of wine: Aged Red Wine

MURICE

IJALBA “GRACIANO”

WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

SOLFERINO

LIVOR

WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

ALOQUE

WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

GENOLI

WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

IJALBA BLANCO

ONLY WINE IN THE WORLD ELABORATED WITH “MATURANA BLANCA” VARIETY
WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

DIONISIO RUIZ IJALBA

ONLY WINE IN THE WORLD ELABORATED WITH “MATURANA TINTA” VARIETY
WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

IJALBA CRIANZA

WINE ELABORATED FROM ECOLOGICAL WINEGROWING (CEE 2092/91)

3.1 DIFFERENTIATION

3.2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

3.3 INVESTIGATION

4. NEWS

6. LOCATION

BODEGAS VIÑA IJALBA

Ctra. De Pamplona, km1
26006 Logroño – La Rioja – España
Tel: 941 261 100
Fax: 941 261 128
e-mail: vinaijalba@ijalba.com

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