The Winery La Locomotora is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery La Locomotora wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Locomotora 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 Winery La Locomotora wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery La Locomotora wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of oxtail and carrot stew, purple leg of lamb with red wine and cranberries or veal cutlets with savoy tomme.
On the nose the red wine of Winery La Locomotora. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, plum or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Locomotora. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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).
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 Winery La Locomotora.
Very old vine cultivated in the Swiss Valais, resulting from a natural crossing between the petit rouge(*) and the mayolet. It is the father of red humagne, also called cornalin d'Aoste, the grandfather of durize or petit rouge du Valais or rouge de Fully and a relative of goron. - Synonymy: old red of Valais, red of the country in Switzerland, landroter (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!). - Description: medium-sized bunches, cylindrical, winged, compact, strong medium-sized peduncles with little lignification; medium-sized berries, spherical or short elliptical, skin of a beautiful bluish black colour with a lot of bloom. The foliage turns completely red in the fall. - Production potential: early budding in the year. Capricious and difficult variety. Particularly likes the limestone soils of well exposed hillsides that warm up quickly enough, lean and well drained. Semi-erect bearing, vigorous with irregular production. Resists well to winter frosts. Susceptible to the main diseases, especially to oidium and grey rot. Also susceptible to magnesium deficiency and stalk dehydration. Maturity: 3rd early season
