This year Murua Wineries is celebrating its 50th anniversary and wishes to share the passion and quality of its wines, which have marked its fifty years of history. And so, the winery from Rioja Alavesa has launched a limited edition, premium case containing its Veguín de Murua Gran Reserva 2016 and Murua Blanco Fermentado en Barrica 2022 wines.
During this half a century, the winery led by José Masaveu, the managing director of Masaveu Family wineries, has focused on making high quality wines, which proceed from 80 hectares of 100% organic estate vineyards firmly committed to regenerative winegrowing.
This winery was created 50 years ago, in 1974, by Pedro Masaveu Peterson, José Masaveu’s uncle, however this family’s passion for wine goes way back to the 19th century when Federico Masaveu Rivell already owned vineyards in Castellar del Vallés, Barcelona.
Pedro Masaveu, also the driving force behind the private art collection belonging to Corporación Masaveu, combined his passion for art and wine when the first stones of Murua Wineries were laid in Elciego, in the heart of Rioja Alavesa. This is how the story of this great winemaking project called Masaveu Family Wineries began, today they own four wineries and one cider mill; Murua in Rioja; Fillaboa in Rías Baixas; Leda in Castilla y León; Pagos de Araiz in Navarra and Llagares Valverán in Asturias, leaders in making high quality wines. Murua Wineries currently makes 250,000 bottles of five different wines that are currently on sale: Murua Reserva, VS Murua, Veguín de Murua Gran Reserva, M de Murua and Murua Blanco Fermentado en Barrica.
Winery, library and art collection
The Manor house built by Pedro Masaveu conserves the structure of the stately homes typical to the Rioja Alavesa. Inside lies an exclusive library and private art collection, owned by Corporación Masaveu, including sculptures, paintings and prints from the 16th to the 21st century. These works of art are by prestigious artists such as Francisco de Goya, Álvaro Alcalá Galiano, Tomás Hiepes, Juan de Arellano, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Francisco Bores or Daniel Quintero, amongst others, and decorate the winery’s buildings.
The winery’s library is another treasure open to the public that has over 2,455 books and magazines, related to the world of wine, from the 16th century up to the present day. In this library we can find the main authors specializing in wine both from a technical and cultural point of view. The texts are scientific, literary, essayistic, legal and informative.
Commemorative case
The case designed to celebrate this anniversary, of which only 500 have been made, and the wines included, demonstrates all of the nuances and excellent characteristics of the wines made at Murua Wineries.
As explained by José Masaveu and written on the case, “we are committed to quality and craftmanship and we have been paying tribute to our vineyard’s terroirs for 50 years, enjoying what we do best: respecting the land and extracting the personality from each of our plots. We have selected these wines so that our customers can enjoy these 50 years of history with us by making a toast for the years to come”.
Murua Blanco Fermentado en Barrica 2022 has a straw-yellow hue. This wine is made following a traditional process, the grapes are hand- harvested and selected at the winery with an artificial vision selection machine. The wine is then fermented in new French and American oak barrels for 15 days and, once fermentation has finished, it is aged in the same barrels, on its lees, for nine and a half months, before being moved to Murua’s bottle cellars.
Veguín de Murua Gran Reserva 2016, which is only made with exceptional vintages and in limited editions, is an intense, bright, garnet colour. It is an extremely elegant wine that has aged for 24 months in new French and American oak barrels.
This commemorative case can be bought here at Masaveu Family Wineries online shop.
About Masaveu Family Wineries
The Masaveu Family began to invest in the wine sector in 1974, when they bought Murua Wineries. However, the family connection to vineyards dates back to the middle of the 19th century in Castellar del Vallés where the family is originally from and where Federico Masaveu Rivell began the adventure that would later be continued by his family.
Since then, Masaveu Family Wineries has grown to become a leader in the wine sector, due to the high quality of the wines that they make in several DO´s, their organic philosophy and their maximum respect for the land where they own their own vineyards, thanks to which they succeed in transmitting the unique personality of the terroir in each and every bottle. The group is now present in five different strategic geographical locations: Murua (D.O.Ca. Rioja), Fillaboa (D.O. Rías Baixas), Pagos de Araiz (D.O. Navarra), Leda (Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y León) and Valverán (Asturias).
