An extraordinarily large and diverse tasting of Rioja put together by Tim Atkin MW yields exciting finds. Above, the La Revilla vineyard, source of an especially characterful white Rioja from Bodegas Bhilar.
Some of Rioja’s best wines were recently on display at One Great George Street in London, where Tim Atkin MW organised a tasting to showcase some of the wines he’d reviewed in his annual Best of Rioja report.
The wines he chose for the London tasting consisted of what he calls first and second growths. Using a scale similar to Bordeaux’s 1855 classification, he ranks producers from...