Rioja is Wild West country. Its open skies, barren, dominating mountains and dusty land make American visitors to this northern Spanish region reach for the sort of adjectives they would attach to New ...

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 ...

Why do some wine bottles come wrapped in gold wire mesh? The distinctive gold wire netting that wraps wine bottles from Spain ...

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 ...

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

I’ve always enjoyed the El Coto wines from Spain’s Rioja region so when I was invited to dine with the winery's Cesar Sanchez Moral and Victor Fuentes at Spanish star Andanada to meet their new ...

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 ...

Spanish wine has been heading into the future in something of the same way that Spanish food has, though not at the same torrid pace. As with food, the “faults” Spanish winemakers have needed to ...

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 ...

In general, many wine labels on most Spanish wines make sense. Often, you’ll find the name of the grape used to make the wine. You’ll also often find the name of the region where the wine comes from ...

Spanish winemakers are grappling with bulging cellars of Rioja, exacerbated by the pandemic, while facing the prospect of crippling new tariffs on exports to the US. President Trump's proposed 200 per ...

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 ...