The Eguren family produces El Puntido Gran Reserva from a selection of higher altitude, sloped, and lower-yielding parcels of the El Puntido estate vineyard. The wine is produced every vintage but in significantly varying quantities depending on the conditions of the vintage. All of the wines from El Puntido display a distinctly mineral, fresh, and savory character emanating from the limestone quality in the soil. This wine displays all of the savory and developed character expected of a great Gran Reserva married with the freshness, fruit, structure, and age-ability of the great Gran Reservas of yesteryear.

Practicing organic dry-farmed viticulture with certain selective biodynamic practices, the vineyards are trained as spur-pruned goblet vines as well as high-density trellises. The harvests are manual, with no mechanization whatsoever. The soils are calcareous clay typical to Laguardia, limestone-rich clays that are sandwiched between large slabs of lime-sandstone mother rock. The climate is continental, with heavy Atlantic influences that are moderated by the Sierra Cantabria.

The grapes undergo rigorous double-manual sorting, both before and after destemming. 100% of the clusters are destemmed, but not crushed. Temperature controlled fermentation in 5,000L vats (inoculated) with neutral yeasts selected and cultured from their vineyards and cellars. Maceration lasts 20-30 days. Malolactic fermentation is spontaneous and is carried out in new French barriques, where the wine spends the next 28 months in subterranean cellars. The first six months are carried out sur lie, and the wine is racked every four to six months.