Rioja is a wine region in Spain, with denominación de origen calificada. Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava. Rioja is further subdivided into three zones: Rioja Alta, Rioja Oriental and Rioja Alavesa. Many wines have traditionally blended fruit from all three regions, though there is a slow growth in single-zone wines.
From the Wikipedia article Rioja DOCa, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rioja DOCa is an appellation in Rioja, Spain. Its rules allow Tempranillo. We track 199 of its wines in stock at 60 shops, from 39 wine houses, from € 5.95; mostly red.
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Rioja
- Grapes allowed
- Tempranillo
- In our wines
- Tempranillo, Grenache, Graciano, Carignan, Pecorino
- Styles
- Red 190 · White 5 · Rosé 3 · Sparkling 1
- Prices
- from € 5.95 · median € 23.79 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +3.7 °C · 1,854 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 2025 | 2 | € 10.50 | € 10.50 | – | hotdry +2.3 °C · 1,750 GDD · 63 % rain |
| 2024 | 1 | € 10.05 | € 10.05 | – | hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 1,483 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2023 | 6 | € 7.59 | € 12.90 | – | hot +2.5 °C · 1,796 GDD · 74 % rain |
| 2022 | 16 | € 12.71 | € 17.01 | – | hotdry +2.2 °C · 1,757 GDD · 60 % rain |
| 2021 | 24 | € 8.55 | € 18.25 | 93.3 (3 wines) | average −0.2 °C · 1,251 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2020 | 21 | € 9.20 | € 22.74 | 93.3 (3 wines) | averagewet +0.2 °C · 1,316 GDD · 138 % rain |
| 2019 | 17 | € 11.90 | € 27.96 | 94.0 (1 wine) | warm +0.6 °C · 1,398 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2018 | 14 | € 10.67 | € 25.31 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,306 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 2017 | 9 | € 11.49 | € 39.00 | – | hot +1.3 °C · 1,539 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 2016 | 2 | € 24.90 | € 37.45 | – | averagedry +0.1 °C · 1,332 GDD · 65 % rain |
| 2015 | 8 | € 16.50 | € 32.88 | – | averagedry +0.4 °C · 1,360 GDD · 70 % rain |
| 2014 | 4 | € 11.29 | € 22.35 | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,345 GDD · 84 % rain |
| 2013 | 2 | € 28.00 | € 58.00 | – | cold −1.2 °C · 1,047 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 2012 | 3 | € 24.99 | € 31.00 | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,399 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2011 | 1 | € 240.00 | € 240.00 | – | warm +0.7 °C · 1,419 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,131 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2009 | 1 | € 42.00 | € 42.00 | 93.0 (1 wine) | average +0.3 °C · 1,363 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.9 °C · 1,068 GDD · 147 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,112 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.3 °C · 1,545 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.9 °C · 1,448 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 2004 | 1 | € 133.79 | € 133.79 | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,289 GDD · 93 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.1 °C · 1,508 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,169 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,262 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,312 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,284 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.8 °C · 1,153 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | averagewet ±0.0 °C · 1,272 GDD · 146 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.8 °C · 1,103 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | averagedry ±0.0 °C · 1,284 GDD · 51 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,316 GDD · 104 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.2 °C · 1,049 GDD · 122 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.6 °C · 1,164 GDD · 140 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.5 °C · 1,241 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.0 °C · 1,529 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,425 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.5 °C · 1,158 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,333 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 1,285 GDD · 84 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 1,243 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.4 °C · 991 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,211 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,170 GDD · 89 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Rioja DOCa's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation (its region's point). The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
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