{"id":16274,"date":"2017-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodegasmontecillo.com\/novedades\/the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:54:08","slug":"the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodegasmontecillo.com\/en\/news\/the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of wines from Rioja Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue, as even earlier, Don\u00a0Guillermo Hurtado de Am\u00e9zaga<\/strong> appeared on the scene. He inherited vines and old wineries from his sister in <\/span>Elciego<\/a><\/strong>, founding what is considered to be the oldest \u00abmodern style\u00bb winery in Rioja – Marqu\u00e9s de Riscal – in 1858, together with his son Don\u00a0<\/span>Camilo Hurtado de Am\u00e9zaga. <\/span><\/a>
\nCamilo designed the winery in the style of a French <\/span>Ch\u00e2teau<\/span><\/a> (this was the model to imitate, in fact Ygay started calling itself Ch\u00e2teau Ygay), bringing in 1868 the first grape vines of French origin to be grown in Spain<\/strong>. <\/span>
\nThe grape varieties <\/span>Merlot<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Cabernet Sauvignon <\/span><\/a>\u00a0and <\/span>Malbec<\/a> gave a more universal flavour to the Rioja of tha<\/span>t era.<\/span>
\nHe brought in many novelties<\/strong>, such as the metallic mesh that covered the bottles, used to avoid their fraudulent re-filling (it is still used by some but merely for decorative reasons). <\/span>
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\nIn 1874, Don Celestino Navajas Matute<\/strong> – from a family that had inherited the tradition of winemaking with a vision of the future – founded Bodegas Montecillo in Fuenmayor<\/strong>, the birthplace of many generations of its ancestors, being the third oldest winery in Rioja<\/strong>. <\/span>
\nHis grandson Jos\u00e9 Luis Navajas<\/strong>, who studied in France like his father and uncle, took the reins of the winery and is one of the first Riojan winemakers to install cooling systems for temperature control during fermentation<\/strong>, and to some extent, one of the people responsible for the fact that wine is sold in non-returnable glass bottles. <\/span><\/p>\n