The Winery Monteleiva of Rioja

Winery Monteleiva
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 528 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Monteleiva is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Monteleiva wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Monteleiva

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Monteleiva

How Winery Monteleiva wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of cataplana with seafood, sweet and sour braised leg of lamb or veal fillet stroganoff.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Monteleiva

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Monteleiva

  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • 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).

The top white wines of Winery Monteleiva

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Monteleiva

How Winery Monteleiva wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of flambéed prawns, black tapenade or onigirazu.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

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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 Monteleiva.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet-Carbon

An interspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Bronner made in 1983 by Norbert Becker of the Freiburg Research Institute in Germany. It can be found in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Romania, ... little known in France.

News about Winery Monteleiva 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 ...

First single-vineyard Rioja sparkling wine released

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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

The word of the wine: Côte des Blancs

One of the most famous terroirs of the Champagne region, from Épernay to Vertus, mainly devoted to Chardonnay, hence its name. The villages of Chouilly, Cramant, Cuis, Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, etc., lying on the chalk, are in a way to Champagne what Meursault, Chablis and Puligny are to Burgundy.

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