Castroviejo

The family-run winery Bodegas Pastor Diaz, which producesRioja under the brand Castroviejo , is located amidst the picturesque scenery of the Ebro Valley. 

Helping Rioja to make a comeback 

Interestingly, all the sons of the last four generations are named Gonzalo Pastor. Although estates such as Bodegas Pastor Diaz have been shaping the La Rioja region for many generations, the winery has only become more widely recognized in the last decade and is still a new discovery for many connoisseurs of Spanish wine landscapes. This is due to the special reception history of Spanish wines over the last 25 years. The ever-increasing interest in Spanish viticulture and especially Tempranillo, its celebrated star, initially affected almost only the country's best-known region. 

La Rioja has always been considered one of the most important wine-growing regions in Europe and gave an enormous boost to the interest in Spanish wine for producers from Rioja. But while individual renowned producers achieved world fame, international attention increasingly focused on

• Ribera del Duero
• La Mancha
• Penedès

and other areas. It was now no longer enough to produce only in Rioja to be successful on the world market. But it didn't take long for producers from the age-old region with the highest DOC classification to reorient themselves. The return to their own strengths led to small, little-known wineries like Bodegas Pastor Diaz rediscovering La Rioja as a region with exciting, thrilling wines. Wines that live up to their great name.

Typicality and continuity 

Particularly important to the family of Gonzalo Pastor Diaz is the typicality of its wines. One must be able to taste the recognition value of the typical Rioja wines. Continuity is also very important to the Pastor Diaz family. And not only because of the name Gonzalo. Continuously, from the beginning, the wines have been refined over and over again, so that today they are unbeatable in level.