Chivite is one of Spain’s oldest and most respected wine producers. Founded in 1647, eleven generations have now passed on the wine-making baton at Chivite. Chivite started with vineyards in Cintruénigo, Navarra but have now spread to Rioja, …

Rioja is a large region and, like Champagne and the Douro, is dominated by a small number of very large branded producers whose size dictates that they buy-in grapes and bulk wine from a large number of growers and cooperatives. deAlto …

It turns out that people over the centuries have also fallen in love with the “first” wines of the vintage. Tradition dictates that the wine villages on the pilgrim’s trail of the Camino de Santiago would often fill the fountains in …