Campo Viejo is an award-winning winery that’s been making wine for over 50 years.
Campo Viejo is a producer of some of the finest Rioja wines. Producing high-quality wines for over 50 years and is currently owned by Pernod Ricard, one of the world’s leading wine companies. Campo Viejo was awarded the International Wine Challenge award for best Spanish wine in 2015. Proving the winery gets so much love in Spain.
Campo Viejo’s underground cellar is an engineering marvel.
The cellar is a marvel of engineering. It was designed by the Spanish architect Luis Laorga and built into the side of a hill, making it 100 meters deep. The result is a cellar that doesn’t just have space; it also provides high quality conditions for aging wine in oak barrels. With 12 levels of underground storage, Campo Viejo’s cellar is the largest underground cellar in the world.
Winemaking is an art and a craft, but with fully automated equipment and processes in place, Campo Viejo has streamlined their operations to be as efficient as possible without sacrificing quality. The wines are beautiful expressions of tradition that continually improves with modern technology!
Campo Viejo Winery has three female winemakers.
The Campo Viejo winemaking team includes three women: Elisa Albillos, Cristina Martínez and Lucía García. Elisa Albillos is the winemaker at the Rioja Baja winery. She oversees production of Tempranillo wine from vineyards in Álava. Cristina Martínez is the winemaker at the Rioja Alta winery, where she leads a team responsible for producing Garnacha Tinta and Tempranillo wines from Rioja Alta. Lastly, Lucía García leads production of Tempranillo wines at the Rioja Alavesa winery. These women’s love for their craft shines through in each bottle of Campo Viejo.
The only winery to have its own cooperage.
Generally, wineries purchase their barrels from cooperages. So what do Campo Viejo’s coopers do? Well first of all, the oak comes from forests in France and the United States. The pieces are cut into staves using a special saw that cuts at an angle to make the process quicker. Then the staves are split with planes that pass down through generations so that they can be personalized for each cooper. After shaping the staves into barrels at Campo Viejo’s own cooperage, the new barrels are toasted in gigantic ovens. Wine is then put in the oak barrels, where it spends 12 months.
If you ever get a chance to visit Spain, I highly recommend taking a tour of Campo Viejo’s cooperage—but if you don’t have the opportunity to take said tour, this brief overview should provide ample information about what makes this winery so unique!
The winery believes in hand harvesting.
You might think that the use of hand-harvested grapes is a throwback from the olden days, but Campo Viejo still uses this method today. In fact, they’re one of the few wineries in Rioja to rely on manual harvesting. The team only picks fruit they consider to be of high quality, so if it doesn’t meet their standards, it remains on the vine. Grapes are collected in small cases and transported to winery facilities where they undergo strict quality checks.
Hand-picking is a time-consuming process that requires special attention and skill—but it makes for better wines. The personal approach means each batch is consistent and ensures that all grapes are harvested at their ideal ripeness level.
Once you taste your first glass of wine and look out over the sunlit vineyards with your friends—the ones who thought you’d never get your life together—you’ll realize there’s no better way to put down roots than by embracing what life hands you and making something beautiful out of it.
Someone, somewhere around the world enjoys a bottle of Campo Viejo every two seconds.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already had the pleasure of enjoying a bottle of Campo Viejo wine. You’re not alone—every two seconds, somewhere around the world someone is enjoying a bottle.
Located in Spain, Campo Viejo is one of the oldest and best-known wine brands in Europe. But it’s not just about being around for ages—Campo Viejo wines are trusted as well. The brand has earned its reputation through careful stewardship, from quality control in the winery all the way up to worldwide distribution. This minute attention to detail pays off. When you open a bottle of Campo Viejo, you know that it will be good every time.
Campo Viejo wines are high quality without being pretentious or too expensive—a great find for any occasion!
Carbon neutral pioneers
In 2012 Campo Viejo became the first Spanish winery to be certified as carbon neutral, leading the country’s wine industry towards a more sustainable future.
From cutting energy and water consumption to reusing organic by-products and protecting wildlife — Campo Viejo’s team works tirelessly to preserve the Rioja wine landscape for generations to come.
The perfect complement to a variety of foods.
Campo Viejo is a traditional Spanish winery that focuses on the Rioja wine region. The wines are known to pair well with many foods, including white fish and paella. Paella is a rice dish that originated in Spain and was initially a poor man’s meal. It has however evolved into one of Spain’s national dishes. Paella is most often cooked over an open fire and made of rice, meat (usually chicken or rabbit), and vegetables like tomatoes, onions, peppers, and garlic. It is usually cooked in a large pan so it can be served in the same pan.
Locally, this unique range of wines will pair perfectly with white meat meals. Try it with rabbit meat, this cuisine is gaining popularity, and for all the right reasons. It will bring out the best in these Rioja wines.
