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 ...

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

Rioja is a wine region of northern Spain that reliably delivers red wines that are remarkably flexible with food, like this beauty. Rioja wines also remain amazingly affordable, considering the ...

The sparsely populated region of Rioja in northern Spain includes 73 castles dotted along lands that were once in dispute between the kings of Navarre and the kings of Castille. Today the region of ...

When wine lovers hear the name Rioja the first thing that most likely comes to mind is an aged red made from the Tempranillo grape. That image would not be wrong; 86% of the wine produced in this ...

Health authorities in La Rioja, famous for its rich red wine, are today toasting a remarkable turnaround from becoming Spain’s worst-hit region in terms of Covid-19 contagion to a sign of hope that ...