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Bodega Teodoro is located around the town of San Vicente De La Sonsierra, in the foothills of the Sierra de Cantabrias. Which is the in the larger Rioja sub region of Rioja Alavesa. Most of the zone is dominated by plantings of Tempranillo, backed up by Garnacha, or Grenache, as it’s called in the rest of the world.

Despite being only 10ha in size, Bodea Teodoro is the home to an abundance of history. The property been in the Ruiz family since 1870, but it was in 1973 that the then-owner Teodoro decided to create a wine brand named after himself – Bodega Teodoro – and in doing so, he became the first wine farmer in Rioja to bottle wine under his own label; rather than sell his grapes to the traditional wine houses, who would then produce regional blends from fruit sourced all over the Rioja region. These wine houses are essentially wine brands – many of which you will know – Faustino, Campo Viejo, or Ramon Bilbao. Teodoro chose to shun the short term financial security provided by these bigger producers, in favour of both risk, but also freedom. Today, the relevance of Teodoro’s decision, all those years ago, is two-fold.

At present, Teodoro’s son José Luis is the winemaker, and his big mission – as he takes over from his father – is to showcase the FRUIT that comes out of Rioja’s vineyards.