Rioja Wine

A single-village Rioja bottled outside the Crianza and Reserva ladder, so it tastes of Laguardia rather than of barrel time.

Gran Reserva is the longest apprenticeship in Spanish wine, and Ondarre give this one 28 months on the lees in new oak and another 32 mon...

Graciano is normally a seasoning grape, blended in a few percent at a time for colour and acidity, because it yields too little for anyon...

Maturana Blanca was almost lost to Rioja and is still planted in tiny quantity; this is a single 4.3-hectare plot of it at up to 750 metres.

White Rioja is usually either oxidative and old-school or scrubbed clean in steel; this is neither.

'890' is the wine La Rioja Alta makes only when it judges a vintage worthy of the name, and six years in barrel followed by six in bottle...

A village wine that shows Rioja Alavesa before oak takes over: forty-year-old bush vines, ploughed by horse and certified biodynamic.

This is Rioja made at the scale of a Burgundian grand cru: 1.54 hectares of bush vines averaging eighty years old, yielding barely a quar...

Viña Ardanza is the wine most often used to define what a classic Rioja Reserva should taste like, and the Garnacha in the blend gives it...