Luis's tasting notes on this historic tasting can be read in Viña Real - 1933 to 2004 . CVNE is the acronym for Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España, the Northern Spanish Wine...

From $24.99, €17.37, £17.59, 33.90 Swiss francs, Sing$79, Can$65 Find the 2000 Find the 2001 As Purple pagers who read my collection of reviews of wines at Majestic last week...

From €12.63, $21.47, £17.45, 194.95 Danish krone Find this wine White rioja is a funny old beast. It used to be rich and waxy when successful, flat and oxidised when not....

Enrique Forner, founder of Marqués de Cáceres, responsible for the wine that is considered to be the first modern Rioja with the initial vintage of 1970, died yesterday at the age of 86....

Plenty of thoughts from our Purple pagers on the ageworthiness of rioja. See Rioja to last and Traditional rioja on the forum. I first met our new Spanish specialist Luis Gutiérrez in...

What’s best in Rioja: a blend of Tempranillo with Garnacha and possibly a little Graciano or Mazuelo or single varietal wines made from Tempranillo or Garnacha or Graciano, or even Maturana...

Rioja in north-east Spain was for long Spain's only high-profile wine region, but in the 1980s it lost many friends by overpricing and under-performing (a pattern which has recurred in Ribera...

2009 Very hot conditions gave average temperatures above the infamous 03 vintage. However, timely rains in Rioja and Ribera del Duero relieved the vines and rescued the vintage. Very good...

Find the Rioja Find the Mallorcan Yesterday in A sandpaper seven from Spain I highlighted some of the more aggressively textured wines that I came across in my tasting of New...

The Consejo Regulador or Control Board of the Rioja Denominación de Origen Calificada (D.O.Ca.) has announced a total harvest of 412 million kg [c 454,000 US tons] (91 per cent red and 9...

These notes on a collection of Riojas that are relatively easy to find in the UK supplement those published earlier this week on the wines of Marqués de Riscal , Benjamin Romeo and Abel...

See here for my tasting notes. Like Benjamin Romeo , Abel Mendoza Monge is in San Vicente de la Sonsierra in north-west Spain. While not exactly the same size, they are both small-scale...

See here for my tasting notes. Benjamin Romeo was winemaker at Artadi for 15 years. For the last five years, he’s been making wine in a 120 sq m double garage in the village of San...

See here for my tasting notes. Marqués de Riscal is like a little village in its own right - they call it the City of Wine and it covers a total of 100,000 square metres –...

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Marqués de Riscal, Benjamin Romeo and Abel Mendoza in Rioja. It was beautifully warm during the day and very cool at night at these...