Aranjuez has never worked in a single vineyard. Our wines are sourced from five established sites in the Tarija valleys — and from new frontiers across Bolivia that no one else has tried.
For most of Bolivia's wine history, a single valley defined the country: Tarija. Eighty-something percent of the national wine, virtually all the prestige, the only zone with the climate and altitude to produce serious wine at scale. Aranjuez was founded there, in 1976, and our first decades of work were about understanding what Tarija could do.
By 1999 we had a definitive answer: planted at 2,000 m, in clay-loam soils, Tannat could be remarkable. By 2010 we had pushed higher, to 2,095 m in Chaguaya — a place no one had previously considered for wine — and proved that Bolivia could produce a Geographical Indication of its own.
Today we work five distinct sites in the Tarija valleys, each with its own soil, its own microclimate, its own argument. And we are looking further still, at terroirs in regions of Bolivia where wine has never been seriously attempted.
Each one a different soil, a different exposure, a different question for the same family of varieties to answer. Together, two hundred hectares of high-altitude vineyard.
The original. The neighborhood, the address, the brand. The winery sits here — Av. Ángel Baldivieso 1976.
An older estate in the valley of Santa Ana — the foundation of much of the varietal portfolio.
Lot 40. The first Tannat plantation in Bolivia. Today a national landmark and the source of every bottle of Tannat Origen Single Vineyard.
Home of the Capilla Santa María de las Viñas, the family chapel. The site that produces our most awarded Cabernet Franc.
Until 2010, Chaguaya was cattle country. Maize and grazing. We saw something else. Today this is the highest commercial vineyard in Bolivia and the source of Pionero Bonarda — Bolivia's first wine to carry a Geographical Indication — and of the Singani Insignia Moscatel grapes.
From the Santa Ana valley at 1,950 metres to the high frontier of Chaguaya at 2,095 — three estates in the Tarija region, each at a different altitude, each with a different argument. Together, the source of every Aranjuez bottle.
Santa Ana la Nueva — Finca El Origen — is where Bolivia's first Tannat was planted in November 1999, in the 1.8 hectares that became Lot 40. Today every bottle of Tannat Origen Single Vineyard comes from those same vines.
Santa Ana la Vieja, slightly older and slightly lower, anchors the broader varietal portfolio. Cabernet Franc, Tannat, Bonarda — the productive heart of the brand.
Chaguaya, the highest commercial vineyard in Bolivia, planted only in 2010. The home of Pionero Bonarda — the country's first wine to carry a Geographical Indication — and of the Singani Insignia Moscatel.