We’ve been sampling a lot of wines from the Rioja region of northern Spain recently. We were shocked at how many great values are coming from this region. Rioja, one of the largest wine-producing ...

Spain’s Rioja region has a well-earned reputation for making magnificent, robust red wines. But what about white wines from Rioja? They might not be as famous as Rioja’s reds but they definitely ...

The region gets its name due to the presence of the river Oja flowing through it, which translates to Río Oja in Spanish. Within the confines of Rioja, which has over 60,000 hectares of vineyard land, ...

Laguardia, Spain — LA RIOJA, a breathtaking, mountainous area in northern Spain, produces some of the best wines in Europe. But a part of it -- Rioja Alavesa -- is now producing something else, too: ...

It may be Spain's smallest region, but Rioja in the North is known as “the orchard of Spain.” And for good reason. With imposing mountain ranges surrounding it to the north and south, Rioja is blessed ...

Lying in the shadows of the Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France, La Rioja is split in two: Rioja Alta (Upper Rioja) is mountainous and humid, while Rioja Baja (Lower Rioja) ...

FUENMAYOR, Spain (Reuters) - Stockpiles of wine in Spain's Rioja region have swelled since the pandemic, but producers' hopes of offloading tannic reds into the U.S. market were dimming ahead of what ...

Álvaro Palacios was already one of Spain's most influential and iconoclastic winemakers. Then he set his sights on Rioja—and things were never the same again. Ray Isle rides along on a ...