41 editor-picked estates growing Garnacha in Rioja.
Where to taste Garnacha in Rioja: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
A founding house of modern Rioja established in 1852, based at the Ygay estate near Logrono and renowned for its long-aged Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva and the Capellania white.
Tasting: Tours and tastings of the Ygay estate and castle by reservation, including the flagship Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva.
Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana, founded in 1879 in Haro and still family-owned, makes the Cune, Imperial Gran Reserva and Monopole white ranges from the Barrio de la Estacion.
Tasting: Tours of the historic Haro cellars, including a building attributed to the Eiffel workshop, with tastings of Cune, Imperial and Monopole; by reservation.
The most traditional house in Rioja, founded in 1877 in Haro and still run by the founding family, famous for decade-long barrel ageing of Vina Tondonia reds, whites and rosados.
Tasting: Tours of the historic cellars and the Zaha Hadid-designed pavilion shop with tastings of Vina Tondonia and Vina Bosconia; by reservation.
A family house founded in 1932 in the Barrio de la Estacion at Haro, one of the last bodegas with its own cooperage, making Prado Enea Gran Reserva and the modern Torre Muga and Aro.
Tasting: Guided cellar tours showing the in-house cooperage, with tastings of Prado Enea, Torre Muga and Aro; also a wine bar and balloon rides.
A modern Haro estate founded in 1987 in the Barrio de la Estacion, focused on old-vine Tempranillo selections in its Roda, Roda I and the prestige Cirsion.
Tasting: Tours of the gravity-flow cellar and barrel halls with tastings of Roda, Roda I and Cirsion, plus a wine bar; by reservation.
A small Barrio de la Estacion house at Haro dating to 1886, making classic Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva alongside a terroir range of single-village bottlings.
Tasting: Boutique-winery tours and tastings in the Barrio de la Estacion, including the terroir-selection wines Pancrudo and Cerro las Cuevas; by reservation.
A historic Haro bodega founded in 1901, now part of the Codorniu Raventos group, known for its Vina Pomal label and the La Vicalanda Reserva and Gran Reserva.
Tasting: Tours of the historic cellars with tastings of the Vina Pomal range and the La Vicalanda Gran Reserva; by reservation.
Rioja's pioneering chateau-concept estate, founded in 1973 at Laserna on a bend of the Ebro and part of CVNE, making single-estate reds including a varietal Graciano.
Tasting: Tours of the single-estate property at Laserna with its 16th-century cellars, with tastings of the estate and single-vineyard reds; by reservation.
A family bodega at Villabuena de Alava in Rioja Alavesa, founded in 1970, drawing on old-vine parcels for its Reserva de Familia and top cuvee Hiru Racimos.
Tasting: Guided tours and tastings at Villabuena de Alava, including the Hiru Racimos and the old-vine Reserva de Familia; by reservation.
A family winery and foundation at Briones tracing to 1915, pairing its Rioja range with one of the world's largest wine museums, the Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture.
Tasting: Winery tours, tastings and the large Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture and gardens of Bacchus at Briones; book through the estate.
The flagship of the Eguren family at San Vicente de la Sonsierra, founded in 1957, making the Sierra Cantabria range plus the prestige Amancio and El Bosque.
Tasting: Tours and tastings at San Vicente de la Sonsierra of the Sierra Cantabria, Amancio and Coleccion Privada reds; by reservation.
The cult San Vicente de la Sonsierra project of winemaker Benjamin Romeo, founded in 1996, whose garage-born Contador earned 100-point recognition and reset Rioja's modern ceiling.
Tasting: Tours of the cave cellar beneath San Vicente with tastings of Contador, La Cueva del Contador and La Vina de Andres Romeo; by reservation.
One of the best-selling Rioja brands, founded in 1959 and owned since 2025 by Vinarchy (the Australian Wine Holdco / Accolade Wines group, having previously belonged to Pernod Ricard), with a large visitor-friendly winery near Logrono producing Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva.
Tasting: Tours of the large sustainable winery near Logrono with tastings across the Campo Viejo range; book through the estate.
An estate built around a 16th-century former Benedictine monastery on the eastern edge of Rioja, founded in 1985 and known for its Finca Monasterio and Reserva reds.
Tasting: Tours of the 16th-century former monastery estate with tastings of the Finca Monasterio and Gran Reserva; by reservation.
A Haro house founded in 1924, now part of the Zamora Company, producing a wide Rioja range led by the Mirto and Lalomba single-vineyard wines.
Tasting: Guided tours of the Haro winery with barrel and bottle halls, tastings and a wine bar; by reservation.
An architectural Rioja Alavesa winery at Samaniego opened in 2002, built as a glass cube over seven underground levels using gravity-flow winemaking, with a panoramic restaurant.
Tasting: Tours of the seven-level gravity-flow glass cube cellar at Samaniego with tastings and a restaurant; by reservation.
CVNE's Rioja Alavesa cellar near Laguardia, a striking circular building opened in 2004, home to the Vina Real range and the single-estate Pagos de Vina Real.
Tasting: Tours of the circular barrel-shaped Philippe Mazieres cellar near Laguardia with tastings of Vina Real and Pagos de Vina Real; by reservation.
The only historic bodega in the urban centre of Logrono, founded in 1890 as a French-Spanish venture after phylloxera, known for the Bordon reds and the off-dry Diamante white.
Tasting: Tours of the historic city-centre winery in Logrono with tastings of the Bordon and Diamante ranges; book through the wine-tourism site.
One of the oldest Rioja houses, founded in 1874 and now owned by the Osborne group, based at Fuenmayor and known for traditional Reserva and Gran Reserva reds.
Tasting: Tours of the Fuenmayor winery with tastings of the Montecillo Reserva and Gran Reserva; by reservation.
A family winery linking a Logrono cellar with old-vine vineyards at Quel in Rioja Oriental, known for art-themed tours and a focus on Garnacha and heritage grapes such as Maturana.
Tasting: Tours combining wine and art at the Logrono winery, with vineyards in Quel in Rioja Oriental; tastings of the Ontanon and Vetiver wines by reservation.
A Martinez Bujanda family bodega at Oyon dating to 1889, noted for reviving rare Rioja varieties such as Maturana Blanca and for its Inspiracion Valdemar range.
Tasting: Tours and tastings at Oyon, including pioneering work with recovered varieties such as Maturana Blanca; by reservation.
A grower bodega in Rioja Alta at San Asensio keeping the tradition of underground rock-cut calado cellars and foot-treading, offering hands-on harvest experiences alongside its reds.
Tasting: Visits to traditional rock-cut calado cellar-caves at San Asensio with tastings and the annual grape foot-treading experience; by reservation.
A Logrono winery founded in 1973, famous for its Y-shaped modernist building called the cathedral of Rioja, producing the Cerro Anon and Anares Reserva and Gran Reserva.
Tasting: Tours of the distinctive Y-shaped winery near Logrono, nicknamed the cathedral of Rioja, with tastings of the Anares and Cerro Anon ranges; by reservation.
A small Rioja Alta bodega at Badaran in the Najerilla valley, producing estate Tempranillo-led reds and offering visits and tastings in a quieter corner of the region.
Tasting: Tours and tastings at Badaran in the Najerilla valley of Rioja Alta, including barrel-aged Tempranillo; by reservation.
The Vivanco family's vineyard and brand arm at Briones, planting a living collection of Rioja and international varieties alongside its core Tempranillo and Graciano reds.
Tasting: Vineyard walks and varietal-focused tastings at the Vivanco estate in Briones, showcasing the family's collection of recovered Rioja grape varieties; by reservation.
Family bodega in Haro's Barrio de la Estacion with its own cooperage; guided tours end in a tasting of estate Riojas across the ageing rooms.
Founded 1879 in Haro, CVNE pours across an open-air wine bar plus guided tours of the Eiffel-designed barrel hall and the Imperial cellar.
Briones estate pairing a guided cellar tour with tastings of the family Riojas, alongside the on-site wine culture museum and Baco vine garden.
Family bodega above 2 km of excavated cellar tunnels in Rioja Alavesa; guided visits end at a tasting room with vineyard views.
University enology professor Juan Carlos Sancha hosts tastings of rare native Rioja grapes, with barrel samples and an old-vine vineyard outing.
Family wine-tourism pioneer in Cuzcurrita pouring barrel samples that contrast oak origins, ending with a blending tasting and crianza.
Roberto Olivan's low-intervention, old-vine project near Vinaspre, making vivid field-blend Rioja with spontaneous ferments and minimal sulfites.
Tip: Look for the village-and-vineyard bottlings rather than the entry wine; the Escondido and single-site cuvees show what old-vine Vinaspre can do.
A Demeter-certified biodynamic estate at Elvillar in Rioja Alavesa, ploughed by horse, making site-driven Phincas wines from organic old vines.
Tip: The estate was certified biodynamic by Demeter in 2021; the Phincas range is the one to taste for the single-vineyard story.
A French-born grower making terroir-led, organically farmed Rioja across Rioja Oriental and Alta, with a Burgundy-inspired village-and-site hierarchy.
Tip: His outlook is terroir-first rather than oak-tier; the village and lieu-dit cuvees reward seeking out over the entry wines.
A Cordovin family winery reviving Rioja clarete and skin-contact whites with spontaneous fermentation and minimal added sulfites.
Tip: Seek out the macerado white and the clarete; they are a window into Rioja styles that the big houses largely abandoned.
A pioneering natural-wine grower in San Vicente de la Sonsierra making unfiltered, no-added-sulfite Rioja from old plots.
Tip: Majuelo de la Nava is the wine to find; production is tiny and these go to natural-wine specialists, not supermarkets.
A small organic family cellar in Rioja Oriental making fresh, low-oak Garnacha and Tempranillo from Aldeanueva de Ebro.
Tip: Rioja Oriental Garnacha is the calling card here; the wines show the warmer, fruitier side of the region with restraint.
The benchmark everyday Rioja: a year in oak gives gentle vanilla over bright Tempranillo cherry. Endlessly available and reliably under twelve euros, it is the bottle that taught the world what classic Crianza tastes like.
Tip: If you can find the Vina Real Crianza from the same house, it is a slightly plusher sibling at a similar price.
Made the old way with oak fermentation, egg-white fining and barrel ageing, Muga Reserva delivers genuine Haro-house pedigree for around twenty euros. Silky red fruit, cedar and a fine, savoury length well above its price.
Tip: The Reserva is the value pick; the same cellar's pricier Prado Enea and Torre Muga are for special occasions.
From the estate descended from Rioja's first commercial bodega, a poised, traditional Reserva of red fruit, spice and fine tannin that punches well above its sub-twenty-five-euro price.
Tip: This is the gateway to the house; the flagship Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva is a serious step up in price and ageing.
An organically farmed Rioja Oriental Garnacha from a tiny family cellar, fresh and unadorned in the new-wave style. Proof that low-intervention Rioja can be had well under twenty euros.
Tip: Lacus is a Rioja Oriental name worth seeking out for honest, terroir-driven wines at fair prices.