Description: 

Luis Cañas Selección de la Familia Reserva is a red wine from the D.O. La Rioja made by Bodegas Luis Cañas in Villabuena, Alava. Producer who began bottling and marketing his wines in 1970 when many still sold them in bulk. In 1994 he opened a new winery that has the most modern systems for production. 

They have 350 hectares of vineyards, mostly on clay-calcareous soils, in 870 plots located in La Rioja Alavesa, an area with an excellent wine-growing tradition. They use rational viticulture which does not use any type of herbicide or synthetic fertilizers. 

The climate of Rioja Alavesa is a transition between the Atlantic climate and the Mediterranean climate, that is, the Cantabrian mountain range acts as a protector from the arrival of winds and storms coming from the North and creates a dry climate but with high temperature fluctuations. which make it perfect for vine cultivation and optimal maturation. 

Luis Cañas Selección de la Familia Reserva is made with the Tempranillo variety (85%) and complemented with other red varieties (15%). The grapes come from a selection of old vineyards over 45 years old. These vineyards are planted on very infertile soils that ensure low quality yields. 

The alcoholic fermentation was carried out at a controlled temperature of 26ºC and lasted 18 days, racking the wines into new barrels for malolactic fermentation and subsequent aging for 20 months in new French (50%) and American (50%) oak barrels. ). Once the wine was bottled, it spent another 18 months in the winery's bottle rack. 

Information of interest: 

14.5% Vol. - 75cl.