Familia Oliván-Ruiz

Roberto Oliván and Leyre Ruiz make wine together as Familia Oliván-Ruiz in Rioja Alavesa. Roberto represents the fourth generation of his family in the vines and inherited six hectares when he was only sixteen. Their work centres on Viñaspre, a high, windswept village with small parcels of marl and sandstone soils.

For their Custero wine, organically farmed grapes from mixed plantings are fermented together as whole bunches with native yeasts, then aged in used oak and concrete.