Bodega Del Río Elorza

In 2001, the Del Río Elorza Family acquired a 40-hectare farm. in Colonia Lucinda de Fernández Oro, in the Alto Valle del Río Negro, at 39 ° latitude south of Patagonia Argentina where there had been a vineyard planted in the first decades of the 20th century. In 2004 they began the recovery tasks of the old almost hundred-year-old vines abandoned on the farm and planted with high density (5,500 plants per ha.) 20 hectares with specially selected clones of Malbec, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Chardonnay. In order to achieve the best and most rational use of water, they installed a mechanized drip irrigation system and a sprinkler irrigation system for active protection against frost, the only risk factor for production in Patagonia.