Wine "La Montesa" DOC, 2007, wooden box, 6 L

Bodegas Palacios Rémond is wine "La Montesa", produced with great love and care, using the most modern technology and ancient traditions of wine Rioja. Vineyard "La Montesa" where they grow the grapes for this wine, is located at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level on clay-limestone soils with a stony subsoil layer. In the production of wine maceration and fermentation takes place in steel tanks at controlled temperatures for 24 days. Wine is aged for 12 months in new French oak barrels (75%) and American oak (25%). Speaking of wine "La Montesa," Alvaro Palacios explains: "Dry clean air that prevails in our vineyards, and our poor soils allow us to make wine, filled with the spirit of culture and traditions, with lots of character than wines from other regions of the world for the same money ". Wine storage capacity of at least 5 years.

Agriculture Bodegas Palacios Remondo, emerged through the efforts of Jose Palacios, was reinvigorated by the return of his "prodigal son" - Alvaro Palacios, has earned an international reputation for its wines in Priorat and Bierzo later. Alvaro, first of all, refused the purchase of raw materials and began to use only grapes from its own vineyards that his father laid in 1960 on the southern slopes of the hills in the heart of the sub-region Rioja Baja. Thus, Alvaro Palacios, having at hand the old vine Tempranillo clones tested and Garnacha, could his very first vintage in 2000 to make a turning point for the history of the family. Guide winery he instructed his younger brother Rafael, professional enologist already established by the time one of the best white wines of Rioja varieties Viura - Placet . Everything else, Palacios translated farms into organic winemaking, thus further increasing the demand for new classic Rioja.

Vineyard, owned by Bodegas Palacios Rémond takes 97 hectares and is located in the east of the Rioja region, in the municipality of Alvaro. It stretches along the long slope from east to south at the foot of the mountain system Yerga, at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level. The composition of local soils include red clay and chalk with a very low content of organic compounds. Rocky subsoil prevents the growth of weeds and gives the wines a light mineral shade. The main grape varieties grown Bodegas Palacios Rémond this: Garnacha (40% of the area of ​​the vineyard), Tempranillo (45%), Mazuelo, Graciano and Viura (15%).