Egiategia

Our story

The history of Egiategia, the "workshop of truths" in Basque, is recent and irrelevant. Everything was based on a strong conviction: to create from a blank page with the freedom of the pioneers of the new wine-growing worlds, a first exploitation on the French side of the Basque Coast. In this perspective, Emmanuel filed in 2007 the patent for immersion and maturing of wines under water. Yes, you read well, underwater! Some of its wines undergo a 2nd alcoholic fermentation in vats immersed at a depth of 15m in the middle of the Bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. At the same time, the first Chardonnay vines planted between the ocean and the mountains in 2009, the dream quickly became a reality and the adventure continued... In 2011, he rehabilitated an old abandoned 17th century building into a winemaking cellar in Socoa.