Faustino

Founded in 1861 by Eleuterio Martínez Arzok in Oyón, in Rioja Alavesa, Bodegas Faustino has grown from a bulk wine operation into one of Spain’s most recognizable Rioja producers and a flagship name for Gran Reserva wines worldwide. Still family-owned by the Martínez Zabala family, the estate controls around 650 hectares of vineyards in top Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Alta sites, planted mainly to Tempranillo with Mazuelo, Graciano and Viura. From the 1960s onward, the launch and export of Faustino I Gran Reserva — in…