Cariñena is a wine area within Rioja & Ebro, Spain. This is warm Aragón Garnacha country, where old vines and dry conditions give the reds concentration. The wider area’s appellations are Cariñena, Campo de Borja, Calatayud, Somontano and Vino de Pago Aylés.
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Elsewhere in Rioja & Ebro
- Navarra8 producersBeside Rioja, Navarra works with Garnacha, Tempranillo and international grapes, making wines from fresh rosé to fuller mountain reds.
- Rioja76 producersA Rioja label may tell you where the grapes grew, how long the wine aged, or both. Tempranillo leads, but Garnacha, Graciano, Mazuelo, Maturana Tinta and the white grape Viura all belong here too.
Producers in Cariñena
Producer profiles
- Bodega PanizaA cooperative at 850 metres, the highest elevation in Cariñena DO, making Garnacha, Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Chardonnay in Aragón.
- Bodegas Alto MoncayoOld-vine Garnacha from the Moncayo foothills in Campo de Borja, built by Australian winemaker Chris Ringland from century-old parcels that once supplied cooperative bulk wine.
- Bodegas AragonesasCooperative house at the centre of Campo de Borja, holding the world's largest extension of old-vine Garnacha on 3,700 hectares traced to Cistercian cultivation at Veruela monastery in 1145.
- Bodegas AtecaCalatayud Garnacha from slate soils at high elevation, with Honoro Vera as the core red.
- Bodegas FrontonioFernando Mora MW and Mario López make mountain Garnacha and Macabeo from old, dry-farmed vines across Valdejalón IGP in Aragón, with a cellar philosophy built around early picking, whole bunches, and minimal intervention.
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- BODEGAS MONASTERIO DE VERUELA S.LWoman-led Cava house in Aragón working from heritage underground caves near the twelfth-century Monastery of Veruela.
- Bodegas San AlejandroMountain Garnacha cooperative in Calatayud, farming around 1,030 hectares at altitude, ageing in original 1962 concrete tanks.
- Bodem BodegasBodem Bodegas makes Garnacha in Sierra de Algairén, with Cariñena DO wines and whole cluster fermentation in Las Margas.
- Vinos del VientoNatural wine producer in the Ebro Valley, Aragón, built around old Garnacha vines and the Cierzo wind by Californian vine-hunter Michael Cooper.