Red wines from Rioja

Lightly-oaked, pure Tempranillo with medium body, soft tannins and ripe flavours of soft fruits, brown sugar and a pinch of allspice.

Plenty of fresh raspberry and strawberry notes make this an easy-going wine to be enjoyed on its own or with a wide range of savoury foods. The hint of oak gives it just enough depth to make an ideal table wine for vegetable, poultry and pork dishes too.

Bodegas Altanza, located in Rioja Alta, was established by a group of wine-loving businessmen in 1988. It has a modern approach to winemaking and its wines are known for their keen price-quality ratio.

Intense red colour with fresh, healthy fruit aromas and a hint of oak. Well rounded on the palate, this aromatic red has ripe concentration, with notes of black cherry, blackberry, liquorice and tobacco. The firm tannins fade into a long, spicy finish. Vinified in stainless steel tanks before a light oaking (twelve months) in French and American barrels.

‘Nice touch of complexity to this red on the nose with walnut, wet-earth and berry character that follows through to a medium-bodied palate, with fine tannins and a tangy, slightly bitter finish.’
90/100 James Suckling and team, tasting of 2,500 Spanish wines

Good with all sorts of food, this is a superb match for barbecued meats, roast lamb, and kebabs.

A deliciously full and satisfying crianza from one of the Rioja region's landmark wineries, a striking building on seven levels that looks out over the Baigorri vines.

Attractive and complex aromas of red and black fruits are given breadth by suggestions of tobacco and leather from the wines' fourteen months in French and American oak.

Although this is a full, powerful wine, there's a freshness and juiciness that balances the rich flavours and subtle depths and makes this a very impressive all-rounder: bright enough for lighter meals and snacks, but with plenty of oomph for steaks, stews and game too.

Bright, energetic red fruit aromas and flavours make this an easy choice for all kinds of occasions with food or without.

It's a fruity, rounded young wine with great ruby colour in the glass, arresting raspberry and cranberry aromas from the off and delicious, crunchy fruit flavours.

A real taste of Spain and of Rioja at an irresistible price.

An opulent, plush style of Rioja. There's a big, tempting nose of sweet black cherry and cinnamon, with a mid-weight palate of cassis and tobacco leaf, before a long finish with suggestions of cool mint chocolate.

This is the wine that the bodega considers the embodiment of its style and values: a blend of the best of tradition with a contemporary, global outlook.

‘A round and soft red with berry and chocolate character, medium body and a flavorful finish. Delicious and inviting red. Drink now.’
90/100 James Suckling

A perfect gift for red wine lovers, this selection brings together six medal-winning Riojas from Bodegas Altanza.

The 2016 Crianza offers a harmonious balance of red fruit flavours and toasty oak, while the 2011 Gran Reserva is a masterpiece of mellow subtlety from an outstanding vintage.

If you choose to click and collect from us, we'll put the bottles into the attractive Lealtanza presentation box—if you'd prefer delivery, the bottles will travel safe and sound in one of our Pulpsafe transit packs.

This is the potent and intense Reserva-level Rioja from Bodegas Baigorri, a landmark tiered winery that commands a panoramic view over the vines of the estate.

The dark livery of the bottle anticipates the contents' rich, enticing aromas of dark fruits and raspberry and strawberry jam, with suggestions of the layers of flavour to come. It's a full-bodied wine that reveals a harmony of flavours on the palate from juicy red fruits through smooth, plummy depths to much darker, deeper hints of cocoa and leather from its eighteen months in new oak.

This balance of freshness and intensity makes Baigorri Reserva an obvious choice for red meat dishes, but its finesse means that it wouldn't overpower lighter meals, and it might do very well with a ratatouille or rich vegetable recipes too.

A Gran Reserva Rioja is a special treat, and this one comes from one of the outstanding Rioja vintages of the century.

The long ageing that qualifies this wine for the Gran Reserva label gives rise to complex and deep aromas from fruit to spice to smoke and leather. The oak influence carries through onto the palate, with rich, toasty breadth that takes in hints of coffee and dark chocolate around a core of fine, ripe Tempranillo fruit.

The Rioja style of red wine seems never to go out of fashion, and this attractive crianza combines lashings of ripe fruit with toasty tobacco and leather flavours from twelve months' ageing in third-generation French and American oak barrels.

It's fresh and aromatic, and although the crianza effect is apparent and authentic, it's by no means too big or oaky a wine for everyday enjoyment with savoury meals.

This wine is a blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha grapes from the Don Sancho de Londoño family winery, which was established in 2004 as the realization of a dream and named after a local military hero of the sixteenth century.

Mazuelo, also known as Carignan, is one of five permitted varieties in red Rioja, and in Baigorri's 'Belus' blend it is combined with small amounts of Tempranillo and Garnacha fruit to give a Rioja with a distinct character and presence.

Mazuelo contributes rich colour, relatively high alcohol and firm tannins to the blend, and complements the rounded red fruit flavours of Tempranillo and the power and aromatic intensity of Garnacha (elsewhere Grenache).

Fresh and elegant, this subtle, smooth red has complex aromas, with rewarding, muscular fruit and generous body on the palate. The finish is long and mellow, with fine-grained tannins.

One and a half litres of this classic from Bodegas Altanza

A deservedly medal-winning, opulent, plush style of Rioja. There's a big, tempting nose of sweet black cherry and cinnamon, with a mid-weight palate of cassis and tobacco leaf, before a long finish with suggestions of cool mint chocolate.

This is the wine that the bodega considers the embodiment of its style and values: a blend of the best of tradition with a contemporary, global outlook.

At the Decanter Asia wine awards in 2018, it was the only wine from Rioja to be awarded a Platinum medal.

A magnum bottle is ideal for a dinner party, impressive without being ostentatious and a perfect choice for a wine as moreish as this

Intense red colour with fresh, healthy fruit aromas and a hint of oak. Well rounded on the palate, this aromatic red has ripe concentration, with notes of black cherry, blackberry, liquorice and tobacco. The firm tannins fade into a long, spicy finish. Vinified in stainless steel tanks before a light oaking (twelve months) in French and American barrels.

‘Nice touch of complexity to this red on the nose with walnut, wet-earth and berry character that follows through to a medium-bodied palate, with fine tannins and a tangy, slightly bitter finish.’
90/100 James Suckling and team, tasting of 2,500 Spanish wines

Good with all sorts of food, this is a superb match for barbecued meats, roast lamb, and kebabs.