In the year 1861 the plague of the phylloxera began to devastate the French vineyard, until 1899 it did not appear in La Rioja, but Don Víctor Cruz Manso de Zúñiga and Enrile, director of the Enological Station of Haro and with great relationship with the University of Bordeaux , aware of the seriousness of the plague, in 1876 he started a reserve plantation of Riojan varieties, mainly Tempranillo. In those years it was only known that Phylloxera could not cross sandy terrain, so it placed this genetic reserve in Las Arenillas, a beautiful vineyard surrounded by sands that also cover a good calcareous clay soil.

          This plantation exists, and in small quantities it gives us a magnificent grape, but its main value is its enormous vegetable purity, it gives us the wines that were consumed before the 19th century, without any genetic modification.

          Of course, all our vineyard plantations are made using this vineyard, possibly the oldest and pure clone of tempranillo.