Finca Allende winery
Situated in La Rioja Alta, on a hill that stands 80 metres above the surrounding countryside, Briones appears silhouetted against the sky, so reflecting the importance of the terroir on which it was built, the importance of a terroir that allows us to get closer to heaven. In a physical landscape that ranges from the meanders of the Ebro to the Valpierre plain, the estate's 56 hectares of vineyards are located on hills with different orientations that pick up all the influence of the Atlantic winds. The soils, with their clay and limestone composition and a substratum of calcareous gravel, enable the roots to develop deep underground and bring about extraction of their mineral elements. The Tempranillo is the variety predominantly grown in them, along with Graciano, Garnacha, Viura, and Malvas a in lesser amounts. Finca Allende corresponds to a personal wine project that likes to experiment and develop its creator's ideas with complete freedom. Exhibiting their own personality and easily recognizable, the bodega's wines have very marked tannins and a great aromatic richness which manages to convey all the expressivity of the terroir and the singularity of each vineyard estate, bringing out distinctive traits, such as just the right amount of aging in French and American oak barrels and the predominance of fruit over wood. Since 1986, when Miguel ngel de Gregorio discovered the excellent qualities of this land, the interaction between the two, between man and land, between intelligence and potential, has enabled us to give our wines a unique personality of the very highest level.