The soils that produce these wines are found at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level and are clay-lime, with very little productive potential, which makes the plant take root deep into the earth. The vines face very hot summers (up to 45ºC) and very cold winters (0º) with a rainfall level of around 500ml per year. Similarly, during the harvest the thermal contrasts between day and night are also extreme, benefiting the grape ripening process, strengthening the alcoholic content, the colour and the tannins, and even more importantly, maintaining a balanced acidity.

In the beginning, the vineyard was made up of only a few Tempranillo vines, but year after year, the team at Pago de los Capellanes has multiplied its best clones. The plants that are best adapted to the terroir and the climate have been selected in the field to continue the plantations, giving rise to the wide variety of plots they have today.

At the core of their creations is Tempranillo or Tinto Fino, although one ought not to forget the elegant Merlot that adopts some very interesting aromas in young wines and also the Cabernet variety with its elevated acidity prolonging ageing in oak.

The bodega’s catalogue offers five wines: three with different ageing (crianzas) and two straight from the vineyard. The ‘Joven Roble’, made from 80 percent Tempranillo and 20 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot respectively, has a clean, bright cherry colour and an intensely fruited aroma that blends lactic and vanilla highlights typical of its brief encounter with new wood. In the mouth it is ample, persistent and velvety, without loosing the liveliness of the great Ribera young wines.

The ‘Tinto Crianza’ is a coupage of Tempranillo (90 percent) and Cabernet Sauvignon (10 percent). A morello cherry colour with a purplish rim, it offers a good balance between fruit and wood in the nose, with distinct hints of leather and liquorice typical of its twelve-month ageing process in French oak, never older than three years. It is smooth and balanced in the mouth, a few refined tannins can be perceived helping to prolong its life, and ending with a long and elegant finish and aftertaste.

The ‘Tinto Reserva’ has the same varietal combination as the Crianza, although on sight the morello cherry colour transforms to ruby with intense maroon tones. In the nose it has a refined complexity, with mature fruit tones in harmony with noble wood highlights, spices and a liquorice base. In the mouth it expresses great balance, very tasty and sweet owing to the ripeness of the tannins but also lively due to its good acidity.