WINERY
A unique location in a magical setting on the pilgrims’ route to Santiago
The 1,300-hectare estate of Señorío de Sarría is located at a historically key site of the Camino de Santiago: Puente La Reina. An air of solemnity and the lustre of a bygone age pervade at this unique estate, where Navarra wine has been made from its specially selected vine plots for centuries.
The history of the Señorío de Sarría goes back many centuries and is inextricably linked with that of the Navarra region. In a chronicle of the Middle Ages, it was mentioned that the Lord of Sarría joined up with King Sancho VII (the Strong) in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212).
WINERY
A unique location in a magical setting on the pilgrims’ route to Santiago
The 1,300-hectare estate of Señorío de Sarría is located at a historically key site of the Camino de Santiago: Puente La Reina. An air of solemnity and the lustre of a bygone age pervade at this unique estate, where Navarra wine has been made from its specially selected vine plots for centuries.
The history of the Señorío de Sarría goes back many centuries and is inextricably linked with that of the Navarra region. In a chronicle of the Middle Ages, it was mentioned that the Lord of Sarría joined up with King Sancho VII (the Strong) in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212).
WINERY
Centuries of history
Many years later, during the 16th century, the history of the Señorío and that of Navarra became further entwined, when the then Lord of Sarría (Juan de Azpilicueta), the brother of Saint Francisco Javier (the present patron saint of Navarra), paid for the latter’s studies in Paris with the income received from the livestock and crop farming of the estate. The manuscript in which Saint Francisco Javier thanked his brother for this help has been carefully kept intact.
It was many years later, in 1953, that Don Félix Huarte, a renowned Navarra businessman, bought the Señorío, undertook the planting of new vineyards there and built the winery, where wines under the label of Señorío de Sarría were subsequently vinified and released onto the market.
In 1981, the winery separated from the Huarte family and was taken through a new phase in its history leading to, in 2001, an ambitious renovation of the wine-making facilities and a restructuring of the vineyard, which helped establish its wines at the forefront of the domestic and international markets.
New impetus was injected once again in 2008 with the creation of the BORNOS Bodegas & Viñedos group.
