Trying to choose the words that define Arzuaga is difficult. Thinking about it, several of them come to our mind: tradition, quality, perfection, wine, nature… But certainly, there is one that cannot be missed, a word that has become the cornerstone upon the whole framework makes up this group is based: family.
The family character of Bodegas Arzuaga defines what we are from the seed to the arrival at the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin. Bodegas Arzuaga was born on a family base, the one of María Luisa Navarro and Florentino Arzuaga. A Guipuzcoan-man and a Burgos-woman who settled in Quintanilla de Onésimo the origins of everything that Grupo Arzuaga is nowadays. María Luisa Navarro’s was already a leading firm in the textile world, a path that later would follow her daughter Amaya Arzuaga, today in charge of running our gastronomic restaurant Taller.
While in the early days María Luisa’s nephews – the Navarro family and Óscar among them – were in charge of the winery, and with time Ignacio Arzuaga was the one who assumed the management of the entire complex, bringing his training in wine and foreign trade as well.
Currently, Amaya Arzuaga at the forefront of the avant-garde gastronomic side and Ignacio at the helm of the complex management maintain that family-run profile that characterises the Arzuaga brand. Such profile that, without a doubt, has been the key to the evolution which has led us to be one of the most important wineries in the Ribera del Duero.
Without losing these profiles, the Arzuaga-Navarro have a direct relationship with the land. We are proud to declare that we are a family winery that – despite the enormous growth experienced on all sides – has not lost at any time the profile that today moves to a large family based in the Ribera del Duero, and make up by each and every of our workers. Arzuaga has supposed a tool to tie population in the municipality of Quintanilla de Onésimo and its surroundings. With the spirit that characterises us since the origin of this project, we continue to increase our family.