The Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez of Rioja

Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez - Pago de Valcaliente Reserva
The winery offers 41 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 327 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 41 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

How Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of lamb skewers, shoulder of lamb boulangère or veal with cream and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

  • 2015With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.72/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez.

  • Tempranillo
  • Garnacha
  • Graciano
  • Grenache

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 Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

How Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of hake with small shrimps for cookeo, emulsion of foie gras with pata negra or baeckeoffe with fish.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

On the nose the white wine of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices or earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez.

  • Tempranillo Blanco
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Viura
  • Maturana Blanca

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top pink wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez

How Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of stuffed beef rolls, lamb shoulder confit with harissa or the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez.

  • Garnacha

The word of the wine: Green

Said of a wine that is too acidic or marked by unpleasant vegetal tastes.

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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 Viñedos Ruiz Jiménez and wines from the region

DO Penedès: new rules and aiming for Spanish wine’s top-tier

On 16 November 2021, the Denomination of Origin Penedès in Catalunya (DO Penedès) announced an extensive roadmap up to 2030, taking into account sustainability and establishing the region as a high-quality wine producer in Spain. Most immediately, all grapes for DO Penedès wines must be from fully-certified organic vineyards by 2025. While it’s an aggressive timeline, DO Penedès president Joan Huguet told Decanter, ‘Currently around 60% of the vineyards are already certified and our ...

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 ...

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: Green

Said of a wine that is too acidic or marked by unpleasant vegetal tastes.

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