Do you Drink Red Wine but don't like Rioja ?

[EuroTrotters]

Please try this ..

VI-VE Maceración Carbónica - Vino de Rioja tinto | Bodegas Valdelana

Tempranillo y viura. La variedad por excelencia de Rioja fusionada con toque de viura, para potenciar los aromas del tempranillo. Procedente de viñedos de 40 años

www.bodegasvaldelana.com

We stayed here at their FREE Aire............

And Paid €5.80 a bottle

Elciego (Near Haro) Free Aire, Nice Wines

Okay, so it’s 10am in the morning . But wanted to post this as it has been a favourite 1/2 way ferry stop to Bilbao/Portsmouth of ours for many years.

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[jongood]

Im always up for some Rioja. When asking for Una Copa A lot of Spanish bars ask Rioja y Ribeiro. Rioja every time for us

 

[PhilandMena]

Crianza or Reserva for me.

 

[Reallyretired]

I drink red wine and like rioja, pretty well anything actually. Even white wine if its very dry.

 

[scotzsue]

We really enjoy Rioja but John's elder son is not at all keen.

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[Soycd]

Love it

 

[Chris]

I love Rioja when I am drinking it in that region, but I don’t feel it travels very well.

That said I am a beer man so ignore me

 

[Edendeb]

Don’t like Rioja, much prefer newer wines especially terra alta or priorat.

 

[Figaro]

Well I'll drink any red wine, don't mind what the label says, hick hick

 

[Lenny HB]

Rioja rosé is nice, far better than French rosé.

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[Edendeb]

Rioja rosé is nice, far better than French rosé.

Spanish wine is better than French wine full stop!

 

[97243]

Love Rioja Reserva or Grand Reserva.

However, before Covid, we were having cases of this shipped up to France regularly for us, golfing ex pats and French friends as well. The bigger Spanish supermarkets normally stock it. From the La Mancha region near Toledo.

 

[Dazzlin]

I get mine at the local market - 2 year old red (local) for €1.80 per litre, served in a plasic 2 litre flagon (bottle)

Tastes great chilled or with ice, been supping it for 10 years +

 

[97243]

Spanish wine is better than French wine full stop!

Spanish wine is more consistent in quality, but there are some great and largely unknown-outside-France French wine regions.

 

[97243]

This thread reminded me that I had this 10 year old bottle tucked away from a bodega with a lovely hotel just outside Granada. What the Spanish call a "complex red" Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot blend. At 15%, it's like drinking velvet.

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[Peavy]

Don’t like Rioja, much prefer newer wines especially terra alta or priorat.

We have great wines in Tarragona.
The Priorat is special because of the licorella (fine slate) soil, wich gives a very distinctive flavour.
But I'm also too a beer man, like Chris, so ignore me also

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[Edendeb]

We have great wines in Tarragona.
The Priorat is special because of the licorella (fine slate) soil, wich gives a very distinctive flavour.
But I'm also too a beer man, like Chris, so ignore me also

We have just sold our finca near Tortosa so I love the wines in the area and have noticed a huge increase in vines in the Terra Alta area​

 

[Manxcat]

There is dome very nice white rioja as well

 

[jumar]

Living in the wine growing area of Murcia we very much prefer a wine that is produced locally..
We were cycling from a small village named Coy yesterday....having lunch in a local restaurant after we were served a locally produced Red of the Monastrell (Matero) grape variety....I must say this young (Joven) wine was a delight...went well with all courses...

 

[rangi]

A decent MALBEC for me!

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[Go_buddy_go_]

If you like a smooth,velvet, vanilla style red can’t thoroughly recommend this one