Bodegas Riojanas
More than a century of winemaking tradition
The Artacho family had a deep wine tradition when in 1890 they founded Bodegas Riojanas together with Rafael Carreras. Signs of this tradition are the stone door built in 1799 to provide access to the family vineyards and is now preserved at the entrance to our winery, and very specially the prizes awarded to their wines before that foundation, as the golden of the Universal Exposition in Barcelona in 1888.
Bodegas Gargalo
Winegrowers School
Bodegas Veiga Naúm
Bodegas Viore
125th Anniversary Celebration
Commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Bodegas Riojanas in their centennial facilities was chaired by optimism that reflects the current expansionary phase of the wine group.
New facilities
Recent reforms in the facilities of Bodegas Riojanas have been the restoration and refurbishment of the original winery 1890, creating a hall, a modern winery of special elaborations, as well as new offices opened in June 2005.
Bodegas Torreduero
Bodegas Riojanas creates Bodegas Torreduero in Toro, making a firm commitment to the future of this wine region. It is made for the first time in the new winery of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, with a processing capacity of half million kilos of grapes and five thousand oak barrels.
New system of grape reception
The grape reception facilities are expanded with new systems of hoppers, stemming and crushing. This gives the possibility to select, trailer by trailer, the different qualities of the harvest for different characterizations.
Entry to the Stock Market
The Banco Santander sells its stake in the winery to the families Frías Artacho and Artacho Nieto, descendants of the founders, after which Bodegas Riojanas, maintaining its character as a family company, decided to quote a portion of its shares in the stock market. The winery obtained the ISO 9002 certification issued by AENOR, the result of strong commitment to quality in the line of action of Bodegas Riojanas.
Qualified Designation of Origin Rioja
This year the category of “Calificada” was granted to the Rioja Designation of Origin, approving its Regulations.
First centenary of Bodegas Riojanas
To celebrate it, its eighth extension is inaugurated, the most ambitious to date. Its purpose is to double the capacity of the winery. Downstairs sixty stainless steel tanks are installed with a unit capacity of fifty thousand liters. Two plants overlap for aging with a capacity of twelve thousand barrels, to finish on the top floor with a bottle rack for 3,500,000 bottles, conveniently acclimated. Bottling line is upgraded by automating the process for a production of 9,000 bottles / hour.
More extensions in the winery
New expansions in the winery are made, increasing the capacity of bottles, tanks, bottling line and technical improvements.
More extensions in facilities
New expansions in the winery are made, increasing the capacity of bottles, tanks, bottling line and technical improvements.
Public Limited Company
Bodegas Riojanas becomes Public Limited Company adopting its current name and with an initial capital of two million pesetas.
Despite the difficult circumstances of the forties, the winery undertakes its first expansion, completed three years later. After the reform, the number of barrels increased to 4,000 and the capacity of storage to the large amount of two million liters.
Return of Monsieur Larrendat
The French winemaker Gabriel Larrendat returns home after spending several years in Bodegas Riojanas managing the elaboration and aging of the wines.
It was he who named one of the wines of Bodegas Riojanas with the name "Monte Real" which still sells.
Constitution of the company name "Roman Artacho and Company, S.L."
The winery was turned into a Limited Society and took on the name "Roman Artacho and Company, S.L.".
After recovery from the destruction of vineyards by phylloxera, times of prosperity are produced and Bodegas Riojanas sells wine in America, with batches of 1,000 casks for a single client, the Cuban "El Duende".
Rioja Designation of Origin
The phylloxera plague attacks the Rioja vineyards
Economic damages are so important that from thirty million pesetas of incomes achieved in 1890 it passed to two and a half in 1910.
The crisis affects 43,000 people who have to emigrate. Two decades later, the Rioja agricultural sector had not yet managed to recover from the hard blow suffered from the phylloxera plague.
Creation of the Oenologic Station of Haro
Founding of Bodegas Riojanas
Opening of the railway
Stone gate
Royal Economic Society Rioja Growers
"The Royal Economic Society of Rioja Growers" is established with the aim of opening avenues for export and optimal quality of the wines.