The Winery Raiza of Rioja

Winery Raiza
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Vicente Gandia.
It is ranked in the top 411 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Raiza 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.

Top Winery Raiza wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Raiza

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Raiza

How Winery Raiza wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of fillet of beef in a foie gras and truffle crust, thomas's shoulder of lamb or oven-baked veal cutlets.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Raiza

On the nose the red wine of Winery Raiza. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dark fruit or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or balsamic. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Raiza. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Raiza

  • 2005With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.64/5

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

  • 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).

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Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Raiza and wines from the region

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 ...

DO Penedès announces the first “Vi de Mas” wines

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 ...

Vanilla is the ‘most pleasant’ smell, finds study

Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...

The word of the wine: Barrel

A wooden barrel made of oak that varies in size depending on the region and is used to age wines. Some white wines are vinified and aged in barrels.

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