Rioja - three sectors, two grounds, a wine

The area in Rioja called parEspagne is in Spain of center-north with the Basque Country in north, Castille-Le�n in the west and the south and Navarra and Arag�n in the east of north and south-east.

Historically this belonged to the country expanding of Castille during the conquest Re of Spain and the landscape is in general Castilian; the north of title towards the east there are rough slopes of mountain which become Rolling Hills lazy and then flatness outside in an undulating plain. It is sheltered excesses of cold-time of the Bay of Biscay by the assembly line of the sierra De Cantabria.

The wine - EL Rioja - is however made in three under-area, and although they all produce all the types of wine, there are a certain number of historical differences. Rioja Alavesa is the sector more in north, in the province Basque of �lava. The ground here is clay chalk-rich person and slightly the cooler, farmers of vine encouraged by wetter climate to plant the grapes of early-maturation and to early make young wines for appropriate to drinking. The people of the area Basque like Tempranillo and they like it fresh, and in all the bars and coffees of the old city enriched by hill they will drink the vintage of this year even before Christmas.

Rioja Alta is the mountains of Rioja itself, with clay grounds fat in iron and chalk-rich person. The climate is slightly more continental - hotter summers and longer autumns, but always with influences of cooling of the Atlantic Ocean - making it possible the grapes to develop perfectly. Tempranillo, Graciano and Mazuelo open out here and provide the raw material for part of finest of the wines.

Rioja Baja is in the east, and crosses the border in Navarra. Here the ground is much lower, the hotter and drying climate and the more arenaceous and alluvial grounds: the Ebro river belongs to the border between Rioja Alta and the two other areas. Navarros traditionally liked their Rioja to have a heat and a maturity spiced and peppery, thus the grape of Garnacha is king here. That which it origin of the grapes, each bodega has the clean sound models, and its varieties of grape are likely to be originating and mixed everywhere area. Indeed, one of the great advantages of Rioja is that the range of the grape