Valdemar Family is made up of 825 acres of family-owned vineyards, spanning Bodegas Valdemar in Rioja, Spain, and Valdemar Estates in Walla Walla, Washington. The winemaking legacy of the Martínez ...

Red wine from Rioja is made primarily from the Tempranillo grape, and many of the appellation's wines are 100 percent Tempranillo. Rioja -- in northeastern Spain -- has a cool climate, so grapes reach ...

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

There have long been two main reasons people come to La Rioja, the diminutive region in northern Spain. First, to drink the top-notch tempranillos and garnachas produced in an area celebrated for red ...

Rioja may be famous for reds, but its whites and rosés are turning heads—crisp, floral, and complex, bursting with fruit and minerality. Here are some top bottles worth discovering.

The Chronicle’s tasting panel, made up of wine-industry professionals, educators and knowledgeable consumers, convenes on a regular basis to blind-taste through about three dozen wines, scoring them ...

In North Central Spain, Rioja claims to contain more wine barrels than any other region in the world. Verification on that is a little hard to come by, but those barrels are surprising for another ...

While Spain's many wine regions are gaining in notoriety and popularity, Rioja is still its best known. The revolution in wine technology and vineyard management that has propelled Spanish wine in ...

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