Winery

A very modern building built partially underground in the Navarran countryside of oak forests and cereal fields.

Tandem is designed by two young Navarran architects: José Luis Vélaz Ballesteros and Iván Fernández Prados.

North facing, the winery is built entirely of concrete to give a natural feel and to maintain an optimum temperature for the making and ageing of wine.

The prominent skylight at the front of the winery beams its light out on to the valley at night recreating the traditional Pilgrims route custom whereby churches and hermitages lit up their towers to attract pilgrims on their way to Santiago.

Winemaking takes place on two levels: on the upper level, fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks fitted with arms for pigeage which help to slowly and softly extract the best quality juice from the grape. This method allows us to produce elegant, classy wines.

The wines are then gravity fed to the cement tanks on the lower level where the wines rest before ageing in barrel. For us concrete provides the ideal conditions in which to store wine.

Our wines are not fined and do not go through cold stabilisation. Furthermore we do not filter our wines ensuring that they reach the market in the best condition possible.

In our bid for optimum quality, we age our wines in 300 litre french oak barrels which are renewed every three to four years.