Riaza Wines

Riaza Medals at the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

Riaza takes home hardware

In the largest competition of American wines in the world, Riaza walked away with two Silvers and a Bronze Medal at the prestigious 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Our 2008 Tempranillo along with…Read more

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We are Riaza

Welcome to Riaza Wines. Our goal is to consistently create high-quality, hand-crafted Spanish wines from distinctive vineyards in Lodi, Clarksburg and the Sierra Foothills. In a lot of respects, that’s kind of our mission…Read more

2011 Albarino from Terra Alta Vineyard – Clements Hills – Lodi

Crush 2011 is here! We started off with Albariño straight from the Terra Alta Vineyard in Clements Hills. 2011 is shaping up to be another exceptional year for grape growing in the Lodi AVA. The long,…Read more

2010 Albarino just bottled

Our 2010 Albarino just bottled and corked. The next step is to slap some labels and capsules on them and they’re ready for the world to…Read more

2011 Garnacha from Heringer-Holland Vineyard in the destemmer

2011 Garnacha from Heringer-Holland Vineyard – Clarksburg

The first red to come in this year was the Garnacha from Heringer-Holland Vineyard in Clarksburg. After being hand-picked and hand-sorted, the grapes make their way into the destemmer and come one step closer…Read more

2010 Garnacha on the bottling line

We bottled one barrel of our 2010 Garnacha after about seven months in French Oak. We wanted to keep that fresh, bright strawberry flavor intact. We’ve got another barrel in the cellar…and after about…Read more

2011 Tempranillo from Hunter's Oak Vineyard in Clements Hills

2011 Tempranillo from Hunter’s Oak Vineyard – Clements Hills – Lodi

Tempranillo just showing up from Hunter’s Oak Vineyard in the Clements Hills AVA. This is THE Spanish grape! It was picked first thing in the morning at just under 26 Brix then made its way…Read more

The requisite Spanish bull

We can’t really make Spanish wines and not have a token shot of a bull. This one comes from a hillside on the outskirts of…Read more

Corks…Complete with the Riaza brand

It’s one thing to make the wine…it’s something entirely different to see it in a bottle with your very own cork! We bottled about 135 cases of wine in April, including our 2008 Tempranillo,…Read more

Celebrating International Tempranillo in Lodi

Celebrating International Tempranillo Day

We had the honor of joining five other Lodi wineries to celebrate the first-ever International Tempranillo Day. Seven courses…six local representations of Tempranillo…that’s what I call a good…Read more

May 30

Pouring in Early 2012

Riaza Wines will officially begin pouring its wine in early 2012. And while some of the details are still being hammered out, it could just be the closest you’ll ever get to Spain…without your passport! Please be sure to check back over the next few months (and don’t forget to “Like” us on Facebook and “Follow” us on Twitter). As we get closer to the big day, we’ll keep you up to speed on all of our comings and goings.

May 22

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A Commitment to Tradition

Our goal is to consistently create the best hand-crafted, traditionally-styled Spanish wines in the Lodi AVA. That is our mission statement…and one that we are absolutely, fundamentally passionate about. Here’s the deal…wine should be easy, fun and approachable. Our job is to make it so. It’s really that simple.