A glass with Fernando Remírez de Ganuza
Yesterday we had the pleasure to have Fernando Remírez de Ganuza, Jose Ramon Urtasun and Jesus Mendoza from Bodegas Remírez de Ganuza in Rioja.
Fernando, a self-made man
The winery was established by Fernando in the late 80’s in the village of Samaniego in the in Rioja Alavesa, which involved the buying and selling of former vineyards. He was 39 years old with no winemaking experience.
Over the years, new techniques have been introduced for crafting and ageing wines making Remírez de Ganuza both innovative and pioneering producers. Innovation has been a particular feature with new improvements being incorporated regularly to raise the quality of the wines produced.
These improvements include sorting tables, cold rooms and the use of new barrels for the ageing of the wines might be looking like common practices for the best quality producers nowadays, but was not common back in time in the region.
An exclusive line-up
Our members had the privilege to try some amazing wines from the library stock of the winery, going back as far as ’94 which was poured out of a Magnum. The wines displayed the continuous thirst of progress in this winery, which was exemplified by the supreme quality of the wines made in the last decade.
Precision and freshness are key elements in their approach of wine-making, making sure that only the best grapes will be used and careful handling in the winery that will just highlight the quality of their raw material.
Trasnocho 2010 and Maria Remírez de Ganuza 2009 were just 2 of the highlights of the evening that our guest enjoyed, a very rare occasion to have them next to each other.
Plus something that our hosts were keeping as a surprise for our guests: a first time public tasting of their 2007 Blanco Reserva and the newest releases of the their whites wines.
We would like to thank Fernando, Jose Ramon and Jesus for this great experience.
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