Wine area · Rioja Alta

Rioja Alta wineries

Rioja Alta is the western part of the appellation, mostly south of the Ebro, with 27,871 hectares of vines in 77 municipalities. The Atlantic climate gives mild winters and summers averaging 15 to 22 °C, and the soils are a mosaic of clay-limestone, ferrous clay and alluvial soils. It has the largest concentration of century-old wineries in the world, many of them in Haro’s Barrio de la Estación, and the monasteries of Suso and Yuso at San Millán de la Cogolla, a UNESCO World Heritage site, are where some of the first written texts in Spanish and Basque were found.

The three areas of the appellation, with the vineyard area the Consejo Regulador gives for each.

Wine villages

Haro 18Fuenmayor 18San Vicente de la Sonsierra 15Logroño 14San Asensio 11Cenicero 10Navarrete 8Ábalos 8Briones 7Ollauri 6Cuzcurrita de Río Tirón 5Badarán 5Uruñuela 4Sajazarra 3Hormilla 3Entrena 3Cordovín 3Baños de Rioja 2Briñas 2Torremontalbo 2Gimileo 2Bobadilla 2Nájera 2Arenzana de Abajo 2Baños de Río Tobía 1El Ternero 1Tirgo 1Ventosa 1Huércanos 1Hormilleja 1Anguciana 1Hervías 1Sojuela 1Azofra 1

All 165 producers