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What is it that keeps Rioja’s sons and daughters rooted here and so committed to the dreams of their fathers? Perhaps that’s the price for growing up in a land synonymous with wine and with 2000 years of winemaking history. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja.

What is it that keeps Rioja’s sons and daughters rooted here and so committed to the dreams of their fathers? Perhaps that’s the price for growing up in a land synonymous with wine and with 2000 years of winemaking history. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

What is it that keeps Rioja’s sons and daughters rooted here and so committed to the dreams of their fathers? Perhaps that’s the price for growing up in a land synonymous with wine and with 2000 years of winemaking history. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Certainly Rioja has a long history as a winemaking region, stretching back to Roman times. But its modern history has been uneven, the boom times alternating with periods of struggle. Victor Pascual, president of the Consejo Regulador, or regulatory council of Rioja, divides the past 150 years into three distinct phases. Fortunately, the progressive ideas sweeping Rioja today are a sign of a new, vigorous and prosperous phase underway. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja.

Certainly Rioja has a long history as a winemaking region, stretching back to Roman times. But its modern history has been uneven, the boom times alternating with periods of struggle. Victor Pascual, president of the Consejo Regulador, or regulatory council of Rioja, divides the past 150 years into three distinct phases. Fortunately, the progressive ideas sweeping Rioja today are a sign of a new, vigorous and prosperous phase underway. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Certainly Rioja has a long history as a winemaking region, stretching back to Roman times. But its modern history has been uneven, the boom times alternating with periods of struggle. Victor Pascual, president of the Consejo Regulador, or regulatory council of Rioja, divides the past 150 years into three distinct phases. Fortunately, the progressive ideas sweeping Rioja today are a sign of a new, vigorous and prosperous phase underway. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Many red Riojas include varieties beyond Tempranillo. Three other red grapes are permitted in wines that carry the DOCa designation. Garnachaknown in France as Grenachegives strength and warmth to blends. It thrives in Rioja Baja. Mazuelo, known elsewhere as Carignane, contributes tannin and acidity. Graciano, a variety that some winemakers believe could play a bigger role in the future, adds an appealing aroma, and its acidity and tannin help Rioja age majestically. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja.

Many red Riojas include varieties beyond Tempranillo. Three other red grapes are permitted in wines that carry the DOCa designation. Garnachaknown in France as Grenachegives strength and warmth to blends. It thrives in Rioja Baja. Mazuelo, known elsewhere as Carignane, contributes tannin and acidity. Graciano, a variety that some winemakers believe could play a bigger role in the future, adds an appealing aroma, and its acidity and tannin help Rioja age majestically. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Many red Riojas include varieties beyond Tempranillo. Three other red grapes are permitted in wines that carry the DOCa designation. Garnachaknown in France as Grenachegives strength and warmth to blends. It thrives in Rioja Baja. Mazuelo, known elsewhere as Carignane, contributes tannin and acidity. Graciano, a variety that some winemakers believe could play a bigger role in the future, adds an appealing aroma, and its acidity and tannin help Rioja age majestically. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Despite all the refinement in vineyard practices in recent years, one aspect hasn't changed. Rioja remains the kingdom of Tempranillo, the one place on earth where this noble variety expresses itself to the fullest. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja.

Despite all the refinement in vineyard practices in recent years, one aspect hasn't changed. Rioja remains the kingdom of Tempranillo, the one place on earth where this noble variety expresses itself to the fullest. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Despite all the refinement in vineyard practices in recent years, one aspect hasn't changed. Rioja remains the kingdom of Tempranillo, the one place on earth where this noble variety expresses itself to the fullest. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Because Rioja's rivers originate in its limestone-rich mountains, even the soils on the valley floor contain considerable limestone, or calcium carbonate. On the hillsides, the soils can change dramatically with modest changes in elevation, shifting from chalky limestone to soils rich in clay or iron. These diverse soils produce subtle differences in the wines a boon to the winemaker at blending time. With these differences in altitude, climate and soil in mind, let's look again at Rioja's sub-regions. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja.

Because Rioja's rivers originate in its limestone-rich mountains, even the soils on the valley floor contain considerable limestone, or calcium carbonate. On the hillsides, the soils can change dramatically with modest changes in elevation, shifting from chalky limestone to soils rich in clay or iron. These diverse soils produce subtle differences in the wines a boon to the winemaker at blending time. With these differences in altitude, climate and soil in mind, let's look again at Rioja's sub-regions. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video

Because Rioja's rivers originate in its limestone-rich mountains, even the soils on the valley floor contain considerable limestone, or calcium carbonate. On the hillsides, the soils can change dramatically with modest changes in elevation, shifting from chalky limestone to soils rich in clay or iron. These diverse soils produce subtle differences in the wines a boon to the winemaker at blending time. With these differences in altitude, climate and soil in mind, let's look again at Rioja's sub-regions. For more information about this series, please visit www.ciaprochef.com/rioja. Download Podcast Video