SPECIAL ELABORATION PLOT AREA

The area of ​​special elaborations of the winery is a nursery of ideas, from which wines from farms and monovarietals of limited edition emerge. Wines to love, investigate and collect.

Among the estate wines stands the most singular of all: El Regollar. Its vineyard, located at the top of Villabuena, is over 110 years old. Its pre-phylloxera strains tell the story of the vineyard in Villabuena through its wrinkles.

And with its monovarietal collection, the winery proposes a journey through the purest expression of its main grape varieties: old vines of Tempranillo, Graciano, Malvasía or Garnacha.

AMAREN 60 SINGLE VARIETALS EXPERIENCE

At Bodegas Amaren we feel and love our vineyards. That’s why we would love to share our passion and invite you to a journey through the purest expression of our main grape varieties, Riojan Malvasía, Garnacha, Graciano and Tempranillo sourced from vines over 60 years old.

This experience allows you to discover our 60 single-varietal wines.

We will start with a glass of Riojan Malvasía (also known as Rojal) paired with a gilda -the area’s quintessential pinxtxo, consisting of Spanish pickled green chillies, anchovy fillets and green olives skewered on a cocktail stick.

We will then go through the special wine making projects area to enjoy a 100% Garnacha made from our Vallondo plot, planted in 1960. We will continue towards the bottle cellar and the area where our whites and micro-plot wines are made, where we will unveil one of the rarest native varieties in Rioja Alavesa: Graciano.

You will savour this wine with a serving of cured sheep cheese. After that we will go to the barrel ageing room to visit a a 16th-century underground cellar. The cherry on top will be a glass of Amaren Reserva 60 Tempranillo paired with an assortiment of charcuterie.

AMAREN EXPERIENCE

Coupage wines. There is no better way to discover a winery than tasting their wines whilst exploring its hidden corners, its philosophy and the drive behind it.

During the tour we will walk through the grape reception area, the special wine making projects area, the

The zone where we make our whites and micro-plot wines the concrete deposits, the bottle room and finally the barrel cellar.

You will have the chance to sample several wines straight from the barrel that are still ageing as “Rock&Roll” coupage of the Ángeles de Amaren wine.

Enjoy the heavenly feeling of walking through a 16th-century underground cellar and top it off with a tasting of more wines.

Reservas

Información y Reservas:

Telf.: 945 17 52 40 · Fax: 945 17 45 66
E-mail: info@bodegasamaren.com
Persona de contacto: Natalia Larrea

CONDICIONES:

  • Las visitas tienen una duración aproximada de una hora y media.
  • Todas las visitas están sujetas a disponibilidad y a un número máximo de personas, por lo que es necesario la reserva con antelación.
  • Por prevención de riesgos, recomendamos el acceso de niños (a partir de diez años) siempre acompañados de adultos.
  • La bodega unirá diferentes reservas individuales si lo considera oportuno.
  • Se ruega puntualidad para poder ofrecerles un mejor servicio.

* Las condiciones citadas anteriormente están sujetas a modificaciones.

Intro Enoturismo

AMAREN es decir, DE LA MADRE

¿Qué puede proponer una bodega con este nombre?

¿Qué nos inspira? ¿Qué palabras flotan a su alrededor?

Amor, alegría, trabajo manual, incansable y bien hecho, pasión, calor de hogar…

Cualidades que caracterizaron a Ángeles, madre de Juan Luis Cañas e inspiradora de esta bodega que su hijo alumbró como homenaje a ella. Elementos que a su vez son piedra angular sobre la que construimos nuestro edificio y su contenido.

Con estos cimientos hemos creado nuestro espacio. Diseñado para un visitante de placeres cercanos, pero exigentes. Sumergirse en la bodega a través de la cata de sus vinos para llevarnos desde sus entrañas hasta un calado hecho a cincel en el siglo XVI, a conocer el origen de los vinos de Rioja Alavesa y disfrutar de algunos de sus exponentes más modernos y embaucadores. Un paseo que conjuga tradición con la última tecnología y que tiene como objetivo elaborar vinos que emocionen.

Solo podemos desear que aquellos que nos visitan se sientan entre nosotros como en familia, y participen de la experiencia de pasearse por nuestra bodega con la agradable sensación de estar en su propia casa.

Ese sería el deseo de Ángeles,

Bienvenidos.

CONCRETE, RETURN TO THE PAST

The harvest is made in the month of October. The grapes harvested in boxes enter Bodegas Amaren and go directly into cold storage where they remain overnight at 6 degrees. The objective is to produce a pre-fermentative intracellular maceration in the grapes, which will help to extract their primary aromas as much as possible.

All the grapes that enter Bodegas Amaren go through the double selection table of bunches and grains.

With AMAREN, Juan Luis Cañas chooses to go back to the origins of his roots, and elaborate the wines in concrete tanks, as was done in the days of Ángeles. The deposits that are currently used in the cellar are of small capacity (15,000 L), fully restored with epoxy resin, and a temperature control system. The concrete protects the wines from thermal shocks, allows a greater extraction of the fruit, and a natural stabilization for the wine.

Amaren Crianza and Ángeles de Amaren were the two exquisite wines to begin the journey of this winery, which expresses itself with elegance, delicacy and its own style.

OUR VINEYARDS

In Bodegas Amaren, the field is a way of life. They are true experts in working the vineyard, and the plots to them are the pieces of the perfect puzzle.

The winery is located in Samaniego (Rioja Alavesa), and is surrounded by 65 hectares of vineyards aging between 35 years and 110 years old. These small plots are characterized by their locations; lands of calcareous clay which originate from low fertility. With a unique microclimate, the vineyard honors the winemaking tradition of the region by offering low production, bunches and grapes of small size and excellent quality. Its department of viticulture is key to getting things rolling, all of them true artisans of the vineyard, work meticulously to maintain control over each plot.

Given the characteristics of the vineyard, all the work is done by hand and in some cases, with animal traction. It is about nurturing  the land in the most natural way possible and following the guidelines of a rational viticulture to preserve the great diversity of animal and plant species that populate each plot and respecting the vineyard and its surroundings, in order to collect healthy grapes by hand and produce healthy wines.