October 01 2024 - October 15 2024
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Dublin
Special Rioja tasting with wine producer of Ontanon Family at The Wine buff Rathmines
Price: 35€
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Join The Wine Buff Rathmines on 10th October for a very special Rioja tasting. Guillermo from the Ontanon Familia Vineyard will be your host for the evening. Guests will taste 6 wines over the evening all from the Rioja region.
About Ontanon:
Raquel, Rubén and María Pérez Cuevas are part of the fifth generation of the Pérez Cuevas family to carry on the tradition of grape growing in the southern part of Rioja. Their father, Gabriel, inherited a portion of his family’s vineyard in the early 1980s, Gabriel began making wine from these vineyards rather than selling the fruit as his ancestors had.
He was determined to produce wines that embodied the region of Quel, where his family had deep roots and where he believed the highest quality wines from Rioja were produced. He began to sell his wines, then labelled as “Arteso”, in the local area and later throughout Spain. As sales continued to increase, Gabriel purchased more vineyard land in his native region.
During his father’s and grandfather’s time, Quel was the centre of quality wine from Rioja. All of the original “wineries” were dug out of the rock faces that encircled the town and consisted of hollowed-out clay fermentation vats with chimney-like chutes dug straight through to the top of the cliffs. The grapes were delivered in old comportillo (grape baskets) and carried down the mountain slopes from the vineyards via mules.
This tradition primarily evolved as a practical measure so that neither the winemakers nor their pack animals had to carry the year’s harvest up the back-breaking steep cliffs, but it also mirrored early gravity-flow systems. Of course, in that age, there were no barrels and no extensive winemaking regulations as there are now in the D. O. Ca. of Rioja, but the fruit from this part of Rioja was known to be among the best of the Rioja region.
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Event information
Date
October 10 2024
Time
19:30
Address
The Wine Buff Rathmines6 Rathmines Road Upper
Dublin
Ireland
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Economic and Commercial Office Embassy of Spain in Dublin
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