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Five great Rioja vintages to drink now
A selection of 15 wines spanning five different vintages all drinking well today...
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The best Rioja vintages to drink now
If you have any old bottles of Rioja in your cellar, now may be the right time to uncork them...
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Rioja 1990s: A vintage guide
How are the individual vintages stacking up against each other now?
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Rioja renegades: 10 producers writing their own rules
Free spirits of Rioja and wines to look for...
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The push for Rioja Crus - part two
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The push for Rioja crus - part one
Why would you want to change a winning formula? Adam Lechmere meets a band of ‘reformers’ who dream of Rioja crus.
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2010 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2010 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Excelente! Has the potential to stand alongside 2005. Drink 2014–2024.
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2009 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2009 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A 'useful' vintage, probably for drinking relatively early.
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2008 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2008 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Ripe, balanced, medium-boded red wines, with bright acidity. Whites are racy with good fruit and floral flavours.
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2007 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2007 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Most consistent quality from Rioja Baja, with crisp, well-balanced, elegant wines.
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2006 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2006 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Good to very good vintage, with a moderate harvest securing good quality fruit and fresh, supple and crisp wines.
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2005 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2005 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. The grapes arrived in excellent health with analytical parameters which correspond to an extraordinary vintage.
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2004 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2004 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Wines with high alcohol and concentrated colour and aromas ideal for ageing
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2003 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2003 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Mixed bag, though better producers created powerful, intense and balanced wines
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2002 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2002 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Fairly broad early drinking wines
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2001 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2001 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Classic Rioja wines: robust and round with balancing acidity
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2000 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
2000 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Officially a three-star vintage. Some made better wine than others.
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1999 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1999 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Yields were down but generally quality is good.
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1998 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1998 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A largely successful year with plenty of above average wines.
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1997 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1997 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A sound but unexceptional year.
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1996 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1996 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A very good vintage though less fine than the preceding two.
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1995 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1995 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A big vintage of classic wines.
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1994 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1994 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Splendid year with intense, slow maturing wines of great colour and depth of flavour.
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1993 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
1993 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A good but unexciting vintage which produced wines for immediate drinking.
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1992 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
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1991 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
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1990 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
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1989 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
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1988 vintage guide for Spain Rioja
