The Bodegas Loa of Rioja

Bodegas Loa - Ara Spes Crianza
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 24 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Bodegas Loa is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Bodegas Loa wines

Looking for the best Bodegas Loa wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Bodegas Loa wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Bodegas Loa wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Bodegas Loa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Bodegas Loa

How Bodegas Loa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, doner kebab or stuffed quails.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Bodegas Loa

On the nose the red wine of Bodegas Loa. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Bodegas Loa. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Bodegas Loa

  • 2007With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.29/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.01/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Bodegas Loa.

  • Tempranillo

Discovering the wine region of Rioja

Rioja, in northern Spain, is best known for its berry-flavored, barrel-aged red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha. It is probably the leading wine region in Spain. It is certainly the most famous, rivaling only Jerez. The Vineyards follow the course of the Ebro for a hundred kilometres between the towns of Haro and Alfaro.

Besides Tempranillo and Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan) are also used in Rioja's red wines. Some wineries, notably Marqués de Riscal, use small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon. White grapes are planted much less. In 2017, the vineyard area was recorded at 64,215 hectares (158,679 acres).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Bodegas Loa

Planning a wine route in the of Rioja? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Bodegas Loa.

Discover the grape variety: Bombino blanc

This grape variety was originally cultivated in the south of Italy, in the region of Puglia to be precise. Today, it can be found in many other Italian wine regions, including Abruzzo, Lazio, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, etc. In France, it is almost unknown. It certainly has many relatives of Italian origin, known or less known, without us being able to cite them with certainty, especially since we find identical synonyms for them. However, we can affirm that the Trebbiano of Abruzzo is not the white Bombino and that the black Bombino is not related to the white.

News about Bodegas Loa and wines from the region

La Rioja Alta expands with ‘artisanal vineyard’ deals

Guillermo de Aranzabal Bittner, a director at La Rioja Alta, said the company had acquired 35ha of old vines, with a minimum age of 45 years, in the village of Elvillar at an average altitude of 600 metres. He also said La Rioja Alta would buy more old vines this year, bringing total ‘artisanal vineyard’ acquisitions to a minimum of 5oha, and potentially up to 75ha, by the end of 2022. ‘We are buying very old vineyards, pruned in the traditional way with very low production, some of which are fi ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: January 2022

Inside the January 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: Aperitifs: how to do them well The art of starting it right, with drinks tips from Kate Hawkings Vintage preview: Chablis 2020 Andy Howard MW picks 33 of his top wines from a classic year in the region Producer profile: Château Angélus Jane Anson visits one of St-Emilion’s four finest grand cru classé estates Bordeaux & Burgundy vintages for Christmas Panos Kakaviatos & Charles Curtis MW select the perfect vintages and appe ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Away from the eye

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