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Bideona Las Parcelas Blanco is a serious old-vine white Rioja that puts Viura and the vineyards of Rioja Alavesa firmly centre stage. Subtle stone fruit, white flowers and herbs lead into a juicy, refreshing palate with lovely texture, balance and a long, distinctive chalky mineral finish.
The fruit is selected from small, mature hillside parcels on limestone-rich soils across Rioja Alavesa. Bideona deliberately avoids allowing fermentation or excessive oak character to mask the wine's origins, creating a fascinating choice when you want a substantial, age-worthy white Rioja whose complexity comes as much from old vineyards and place as from winemaking.
Bideona Las Parcelas Blanco shows just how serious white Rioja can become without relying on obvious oak to provide its personality. Predominantly old-vine Viura, it combines subtle stone fruit, white flowers and herbal notes with juicy freshness, satisfying texture and a long, chalky mineral finish.
Its complexity comes principally from carefully selected old vineyard parcels across Rioja Alavesa. The result is a white with freshness and immediate appeal, but also enough depth, precision and structure to reward both time in the glass and further development in bottle.
Merchant's Tip
If you associate serious white Rioja with a strong barrel-fermented character, this is worth trying. There is plenty of texture and complexity, but Bideona deliberately keeps the wood in the background. Give it a generous glass and don't serve it too cold — the subtle fruit, herbs and mineral character become much more expressive as it opens.
Nose
Subtle at first but increasingly expressive in the glass, revealing stone fruit, delicate white flowers and fresh herbal notes.
Palate
Juicy, refreshing and beautifully poised, with concentrated fruit, lively acidity and a satisfying textural quality. The wine feels substantial without becoming heavy or overtly oaky.
Finish
Long, precise and distinctly mineral, with a chalky character that leaves the palate fresh and ready for another sip.
Choose Las Parcelas Blanco if you want a white Rioja with genuine depth and complexity but don't want oak to dominate the wine. It is particularly interesting if you want to discover what old-vine Viura and the limestone-rich vineyards of Rioja Alavesa can contribute in their own right.
It also suits someone looking beyond simple, youthful white Rioja. This has the freshness to drink beautifully now, but its concentration, structure and vineyard character give it considerably more substance and the ability to develop further in bottle.
If you're unsure whether this more restrained, vineyard-led expression or a richer barrel-fermented style would suit you better, our White Rioja Style Guide can help you make that choice.
Las Parcelas Blanco begins with selected old vineyards across Rioja Alavesa, many around or beyond 50 years of age. These are small parcels on the limestone-rich slopes beneath the Sierra Cantabria, where low yields, altitude and mature vines provide concentrated fruit while preserving the freshness that defines Bideona's wines.
Viura forms the heart of the wine, although these historic vineyards reflect Rioja Alavesa's tradition of different varieties being planted together. Rather than trying to remove that history, Bideona uses it as part of the wine's expression of place.
The winemaking is deliberately responsive rather than formulaic. The vessels and length of maturation can change with the vintage, using combinations of stainless steel, concrete and oak where appropriate. The objective remains constant: develop texture and complexity without covering Viura's fruit or the wine's distinctive mineral character with fermentation or excessive wood aromas.
The combination of freshness, texture and subtle complexity makes this particularly versatile with food. Try it with grilled or roasted white fish, hake, shellfish, roast chicken, pork, creamy vegetable dishes or moderately rich rice dishes. Its mineral freshness also works particularly well where a dish needs enough substance from the wine without heavy oak competing with the food.
Serve around 10–12°C rather than fridge-cold and use a reasonably generous white-wine glass. Allowing it to warm slightly and breathe in the glass helps reveal the quieter stone-fruit, floral and herbal characters behind its initial freshness.
For more ideas based on what you're cooking, visit our Rioja Food Pairing Guide.
This is one of the bottles that makes Bideona particularly interesting to us. It doesn't try to make white Rioja distinctive simply by adding more oak. Instead, old vineyards, Viura, limestone soils and careful selection provide the wine's identity, while the winemaking gives those ingredients enough space to show themselves.
That gives Las Parcelas Blanco a very clear reason to be in the range: it lets us offer a serious, complex white Rioja to someone who wants to explore vineyard and grape character rather than primarily a winemaking style. It is a particularly good demonstration of Bideona's belief that Rioja can be understood through where its grapes come from.
If the Viura itself has caught your interest, our Viura Wine Guide explores the grape and the different styles of white Rioja it can produce.
To understand why Bideona puts vineyards and origin ahead of traditional ageing classifications, continue to our Bideona producer guide, or browse the complete Bideona collection.
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