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 fondue bourguignonne and accompanying sauces, lamb shoulder confit with harissa or roast veal orloff with mushrooms.
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.
A variety resulting from a cross between (Cinsaut x Csaba pearl) by the cardinal. In 1989, it was registered in the Official Catalogue of Varieties list A1.
It had been possible to produce sparkling wines in Rioja, certified as DO Cava, since the creation of Spain’s main sparkling wine entity. But this fact was often unknown to consumers given that 95% of Cava is produced in the Catalunya region. The area for production of Cava in Rioja is however limited to only 18 of the nearly 150 municipalities within the entire DO zone. In a bid to better show point of origin, the new subzone labelling of Cava that was approved in 2021 now refers to the p ...
In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...
The 11 producers within the group saw total sales reach 2.3 million bottles for 2021 which erased the general 23% contraction in sales during 2020 and surpassed 2019’s 2.2 million bottles sold. What’s more, the per bottle price rose 2% from 2020 to an average of 17.35€. This is an important distinction in a country where sparkling wines are regularly found in supermarkets for 2€ a bottle or even less. The Corpinnat producers admit that this rise in price will unfortunately be offset ...
Visual aspect of the wine. The colour is defined by its intensity, clarity, brilliance and colour, which indicate the level of evolution of the wine, thus giving an indication of its vintage.
