We arrive in Madrid on a Thursday morning in early summer, several colleagues and I, here to visit wine regions in Europe for two weeks. The first leg of our journey is a visit to the Rioja region of ...

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 ...

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 ...

is a good example of quality-to-price. Spain's Rioja region has a long and glorious wine history. From the 15th century, monks and monasteries were instrumental in Rioja's wine development. The region ...

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 ...

I was pleasantly surprised by how un-touristy the Rioja region felt. Despite the fame of this wine region, there was a ...

Rioja is probably the most traditional of Spain’s table wine appellations, with a reputation that goes back more than 100 years. But it’s also a dynamic region that continues to redefine itself. You ...

The Rioja wine region in Spain is renowned not only for its exceptional wines but also for its charming small villages. Occupied since the Bronze Age, the Phoenicians, Celts, and Romans have all left ...

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 ...

The wine harvest ended just in time. This week the Rioja region of Spain has been dense with fog and rain, which would have been a disaster for the harvest. But it finished last week, under brilliant ...

MADRID (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 Spain to ...