Viña Ijalba was founded in 1975 by Dionisio Ruiz Ijalba, with the planting of the firm's first vineyard in the vicinity of Logroño. The winery was built in 1991. 

Viña Ijalba currently has 93 hectares of its own vineyards in various areas around Logroño and San Vicente de la Sonsierra. The originality of the vineyard is that it is planted on abandoned opencast mines that have been recovered from an environmental point of view. In all our own vineyards we have been practising organic cultivation since 1994, obtaining the first organic wine in the Rioja region in 1999.

We use the traditional grape varieties of Rioja, researching the development of wines with minority native varieties. As a result of this work, Viña Ijalba presented the first Graciano varietal wine in the history of Rioja in 1995, the first Maturana Blanca wine in 2001 and the first Maturana Tinta wine in the world in 2002. In 2006 the first Tempranillo Blanco wine was presented at the same time as the first Tempranillo Blanco wine in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja.

The winery has an air-conditioned underground ageing cellar with 1400 barrels.