The Winery Luis Cañas of Rioja

Winery Luis Cañas - Crianza
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 126 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Luis Cañas is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Luis Cañas wines

Looking for the best Winery Luis Cañas wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Luis Cañas 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 Luis Cañas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Luis Cañas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Luis Cañas

How Winery Luis Cañas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of family potluck, lamb chops with spanish sauce or andouillette de troyes with chaource sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Luis Cañas

On the nose the red wine of Winery Luis Cañas. often reveals types of flavors of cream, milk chocolate or lavender and sometimes also flavors of dill, minerality or dried fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Luis Cañas. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Luis Cañas

  • 1969With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1980With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1970With an average score of 4.43/5
  • 1986With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1997With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.15/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Luis Cañas.

  • Tempranillo
  • Garnacha
  • Graciano
  • Viura

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).

The top white wines of Winery Luis Cañas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Luis Cañas

How Winery Luis Cañas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of linguine with shrimp and spicy tomato sauce, cake with olives and bacon or sublime fish and shrimp colombo.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Luis Cañas

On the nose the white wine of Winery Luis Cañas. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, non oak or hazelnut and sometimes also flavors of lemon zest, cedar or straw. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Luis Cañas. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Luis Cañas

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Luis Cañas.

  • Malvasia
  • Viura

Discover the grape variety: Tzolikoouri

Most certainly finding its first origins in Georgia. It can be found in Italy, Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, ... in France, it is practically unknown.

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Discover the grape variety: Camaralet

The white Camaralet is a grape variety that originated in France (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. The white Camaralet can be found cultivated in these vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley.

News about Winery Luis Cañas and wines from the region

Nomad winemaker: Why I make wine in Spain

When I started my nomadic winemaking project, in 2018 at Niepoort Vinhos in Portugal’s Douro region, I had no idea how large a part Spain would go on to play – I certainly never intended to make it the locus of my project. So how did it happen? Yes, there was an element of chance and taking opportunities where they arose. But also, among the talented winemakers to whom I pitched collaborations, I sensed an openness and a readiness to collaborate which seemed particular to Spain. Held in June las ...

Old Vine Charter: Perth’s Swan Valley to preserve historic vines

Old vines from Western Australia’s Swan Valley will be protected in the soon-to-be launched Swan Valley Old Vine Charter (OVC). More than 20 wineries from this historic region, a 30-minute drive from the state capital of Perth, are participating. The programme will see grapevines from 35 to 125 years of age registered and preserved. Participating wineries include Talijancich Wines, Nikola Estate, John Kosovich Wines, Mandoon Estate and Sandalford Wines. While the vines are predominantly Shiraz, ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

The word of the wine: Reserve wine (champagne)

Older wines, kept in vats or aged in wood in some houses, or kept in magnums at Bollinger. A small percentage of these wines are used in the blending of non-vintage wines in order to bring greater aromatic complexity.

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