Spain is one of the top wine-producing countries in the world. Find out what you should know about the red wine from Spain's northern Rioja region.

This classification helps provide marketing clout. Almost one third of all Spanish DO/DOC wine exports originate from Rioja. The region sold 386 million bottles to a hundred countries last year.

The vast majority of wine (91 percent) made in Rioja is red wine. The other 9 percent of wine from Rioja is white wine. Many of the red wines made in Rioja are a blend of several different grapes.

The northern region of La Rioja, with its diversity of terroir, microclimates and grape varieties, accounts for just 0.7 per cent of Spain's population but makes 21 per cent of its wine, including ...

Stockpiles of wine in Spain's Rioja region have swelled since the pandemic, but producers' hopes of offloading tannic reds into the U.S. market were dimming ahead of what President Donald Trump is ...

2001 Faustino I Tinto Rioja “Gran Reserva” (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times) By S. Irene Virbila March 29, 2014 12 AM PT ...