{"id":1301,"date":"2026-07-16T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lopezdeheredia.destinoexterior.net\/bodega-y-su-arquitectura\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:55:43","slug":"the-winery-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lopezdeheredia.destinoexterior.net\/en\/the-winery-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winery &#038; Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1301\" class=\"elementor elementor-1301 elementor-70\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c51648 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1c51648\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"main-box-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3ad91b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3ad91b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>The winery and its buildings<\/h1><p>When D. Rafael L\u00f3pez de Heredia y Landeta began building the bodega, little did he realise that his masterpiece would one day be acknowledged as an example to the rest of the industry of the most perfect combination of buildings and vineyards. Like many medieval masterpieces, still incomplete, the buildings stand below and above ground &#8211; a veritable &#8220;Cathedral to wine&#8221;.\u00a0 Browsing through the vaulted underground corridors and staircases, you find yourself travelling back in time, and the founder\u2019s touch can still be sensed in the very stones and fabric of the building.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lopezdeheredia.destinoexterior.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ftxoritoki.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"462\" \/><span class=\"pie\">View of the winery with its tower &#8220;Txori-Toki&#8221; tower<\/span><\/p><p>Today the estate covers an area of 53,076 square metres including 19,718 square metres of buildings, 3,433, 41 square metres of which are underground cellars up to 200 metres long and descending to an overall depth of 15 metres.\u00a012,900 Bordeaux oak barrels are stored in the heart of a mountain within our cellars.<\/p><p>In addition, the bodega is home to a large family of 72 oak vats from areas such as Cantabria, Bosnia, Allier and America.\u00a0 Their capacity ranges from 60 hectolitres, the baby, up to the largest which holds some 640 hectolitres. Oak casks play a pivotal role in the fermentation of our wines as we use completely natural and traditional methods of wine making.<\/p><p>As with cathedrals in the past, work on building the winery is never-ending.\u00a0 Every successive member of the family has taken on the task of completing an aspect of the founder&#8217;s original vision. These plans, combined with a continuing family commitment, have resulted in each generation leaving its mark on the complex.<\/p><p>Each part of the cellars, built and added onto over a period of a hundred years, has been given a name. These names, some of which cannot be translated, are evocative of the past and their origin lies in local legends and our old Rioja dialect: &#8220;La Bodega Vieja&#8221; (The Old Cellar), &#8220;La Bodega Nueva&#8221; (The New Cellar), &#8220;La Bisiesta&#8221;, &#8220;La Dolorosa&#8221;, &#8220;La Bodega de Reservas&#8221;, &#8220;El Caladillo&#8221;, &#8220;El Front\u00f3n&#8221; (The Pelota Court), &#8220;El Cementerio&#8221; and &#8220;El Calado&#8221;.\u00a0 These underground cellars with their rich and golden aroma of old oak leave the visitor with a lasting impression of romance and mystery.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lopezdeheredia.destinoexterior.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faerea.jpg\" alt=\"vista aerea\" width=\"515\" height=\"224\" \/><span class=\"pie\">An aerial view of the bodega as conceived by our founder<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winery and its buildings When D. Rafael L\u00f3pez de Heredia y Landeta began building the bodega, little did he realise that his masterpiece would one day be acknowledged as an example to the rest of the industry of the most perfect combination of buildings and vineyards. Like many medieval masterpieces, still incomplete, the buildings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"plantilla":[47],"class_list":["post-1301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","plantilla-caja"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Winery &amp; Architecture - R. 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