Rioja Report 2026: White Rioja: A successful quest for excellence

Wonderful! Stony minerality and a flinty freshness mark this wine which is driven by precise, direct acidity. At the moment, it is young, tightly wound...

A blend of Maturana, Garnacha Blanca and Viura from a range of sites with diverse soils. The free-run must, or 'mosto flor', is selected then...

Deep and complex yet so playful, this is from bush vines averaging 65 years of age on limestone soils in the Sonsierra and on high-elevation,...

This vibrates through the palate with electric energy and layered playfulness. It's a blend of 80% Viura and 20% Sauvignon Blanc, the former from vines...

Such a vibrant, energetic and characterful wine, with great focus throughout, this is 100% Viura from vines planted in 1970 on calcareous lime marls with...

Precise, with driven, elegant acidity, this is a really classy white Reserva with just a hint of evolution, green fruit, lime and some salty freshness....

A classy wine that neatly balances wet stone, lemon pith and delicate oak. From vines at 600m on mostly clay-loam soils, 95% Viura and 5%...

Classically aged 100% Viura with an oxidative character that is immediately appealing. The fruit is from vines at least 45 years old at 430m-500m near...

Mezcal-like salty lime reveals the northern, cooler origin of this 100% Garnacha Blanca. The fruit is sourced from two Alavesa vineyards, respectively 20 and 80...

Fruit for this 100% Viura wine is grown in a 1.45ha single plot of bush vines planted in 1978 at 600m. The free-run must is...

Beautifully crafted 100% Garnacha Blanca, which is sourced from a 0.6ha plot of bush vines at 520m. Here the oak is very judiciously used with...

This has benefited from time in bottle and is now very expressive. Delicate stone fruit mingles with lemon, apple and pear with stony minerality and...

Deserving of time to open up in the glass, this slowly reveals wonderful complexity and character. The blend of 70% Viura and 30% Maturana Blanca...

Fine and assertive, with remarkable poise and focus. Deft use of wood, building a toasty, almondy frame around the fleshy white peach and yellow apple...

Clearly Reserva in style with creamy, generous oak but a fresh, driven and lemony core, this is a complex blend led by Maturana Blanca, Viura...

Gorgeous. Equal quantities of whole-bunch Malvasía and destemmed Viura are fermented with native yeasts, then matured in a 500L French oak bocoy cask. Textural and...

An assertive, well-honed framework of salted Marcona almond and buttered croissant outlines the clementine and yellow apple fruit. A distinct and alluring single malt-like pithiness...

Absolutely delicious, enlivened by mineral verve and briny salinity. Gently toasty and appetisingly creamy with a bed of lemon curd, frangipane and almond pie. A...

From an ungrafted massal selection of Viura bush vines (with interpersed Malvasía, Garnacha Blanca and Calagraño) planted in 1973, grown close to the Ebro at...