Bodegas Franco-Españolas

Bodegas Franco-Españolas was founded in 1890 as a partnership between France and Spain at a critical moment in Rioja, when the French came to the region in an attempt to replace their vineyards devastated by the wine blight, phylloxera. This was the start of the “fine wines of Rioja”. As a result, Frederick Anglade Saurat, from Bordeaux, founded Bodegas Franco-Españolas in 1890., A year later, the first vintage iconic wines were produced from the winery: Diamante as well as Estilo Borgoña, which was renamed Rioja Bordón in the 1950s, and was redesigned as Bordón in 2017.

History of the winery