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 ...

As our community’s wine culture matures, there is a growing realization that “reliable” doesn’t have to mean “repetitive.” ...

When Álvaro Palacios isn’t making wine in Rioja, the Priorat or Bierzo, or jetting off to conferences in Portugal or tastings in Hong Kong, or touching down for distributor meetings in one of the 90 ...

Certain places are consistent in making great wine year in and year out. Whether it’s California’s Napa Valley, France’s Bordeaux region or the rolling hills of Tuscany in Italy, you can be sure that ...

AMONG THE LARGEST and most dynamic wine regions, Spain produces twice as much wine as the United States. Within Spain, arguably the most interesting region is called Rioja, where the red grape ...

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 ...

MADRID, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The wine-producing region of La Rioja on Tuesday ordered the closure of restaurants and bars in its two largest towns for a month as part of widening restrictions across ...

The wine world is changing rapidly, with new grapes, regions and styles coming to the fore. But some things stay the same. Like Rioja, the once and future signature wine of Spain. Admittedly, some ...

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 ...