The Last Supper was the one offered by Jesus Christ to his apostles the night before he was crucified. It has appeared in thousands of works of art, books, documentaries, films, and studies. Although there are many unknowns about it, there Jesus distributed the bread and wine among his disciples, beginning the Eucharist. But what is known about the wine that was drunk that night?
The Marawi grape: from Israel to Elciego Based on this theory, we have proposed to revive the wine that was drunk during the most famous dinner in Christendom. For this we have been working since 2012 in the north of Israel, where we have already participated in three harvests of the Marawi variety. Since 2017, we have also started to grow it on one hectare in our Garden of Varieties. As Juanje says: “We started this same project in an experimental hectare in Spain 4 years ago. We had four lines of work, three have failed and one came out. Let’s hope to harvest that hectare in 3 years. From there we will produce between 6,000 and 6,500 bottles of this wine “.
The characteristics of the wine of the Last Supper One of the biggest surprises has been to discover that the wine of the Last Supper was white, and not red as assumed. These are the characteristics of this wine: View: greenish yellow hue, an intense color.Smell: it is very floral on the nose. Aniseed, violet aromas and the smell of almond blossom predominate.Taste: it has a fresh and attractive acidity point masked by the sweetness of the tannins on the tip of the tongue.Gradation: no more than 13 degrees, it is not a very alcoholic wine.
In Valdelana, the passion of the winemaking has been transmitted generation after generation, from parents to children. Juan Jesús Valdelana, current owner and oenologist, is the fifteenth generation that bets on quality with emphasis on viticulture together with her daughter, Judit and her son Juan. Fully dedicated to research on the winemaking process and creating a new wine concept in Rioja Alavesa.
The winery is located in the historic village of Elciego, where six different roads of the D.O. Ca Rioja come together. Awarded for third time by the prestigious international BEST OF awards, becoming one of the most award-winning wineries in the country, Bodegas Valdelana gives to the tourist the chance to live unique experiences that they will never forget. The last award obtained was in the category of Art and Culture.
The winery is built on six underground stone ashlars, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. In them, the tourist will discover our Ethnographic Museum with remains of all the cultures and civilizations that have preceded us and have inhabited Rioja Alavesa since the prehistoric time.
But the most important is the wine, that with the biggest care in the elaboration have become one of the most awarded wines in the country. International wine competitions such as “Decanter”, “Concours Mondial Bruxelles”, “Mundus Vini” etc., have compensated our work, rising to the podium of the best Spanish wines. For instance, our premium wine AGNVS de Valdelana Crianza, has been recently awarded this year as the Best Rioja Crianza Wine, a great honor for our family. This year we are specially glad because our wine SEDA DE ORO RESERVA 2016 has been awarded as the BEST TEMPRANILLO IN THE WORLD in the prestigious AWC Vienna wine competition.