At the headwaters of the River Ebro there lie some of the most northern vineyards in the Iberian Peninsula.


The wine-growing region of Rioja is embedded within the Ebro Valley, marked off to the north by the Cantabrian mountain range and to the south by the Demanda mountain range. It is a privileged region because of the cultivation of the vine and the production of high quality wines with a unique personality and a great aptitude for vintages. The vineyards cover a strip of land some 100 kilometres in length and 40 kilometres in width, where on graded stepped terraces over the five perpendicular valleys of the River Ebro the vines are anchored with the height reaching as far as 700 metres.

The 63,500 hectares of vineyard that are integrated in the quality-controlled region of Rioja are distributed throughout the Autonomous Communities of La Rioja, Navarra and the Basque Country.

Although small in size, this wine-growing region possesses distinctive types of soil and climatic areas, which divides the region into three zones: High Rioja, Low Rioja and Alaves Rioja.

The annual mean production is almost 270 million litres, from which 85% goes to produce red wine and the rest towards white and rose.