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"Campo Viejo, we salute you!"

Advantages: Ruby red Rioja from Spain, good taste and colour.
Disadvantages: Could be a little smoother.

Way up in the North of Spain, a long way from where I live on the South Coast, is an area known as Rioja. Under the hot Spanish sun the fertile vineyards produce some of Spain's most popular wines. It was there in 1959 that Jose Ortiguela founded the Bode ...

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Review of Campo Viejo Crianza Spain

Rioja bye baby on the tree top....

Advantages: Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum
Disadvantages: Not cheap

Campo Viejo Rioja Crianza 2007 Well, here I am, your resident wine expert back again. The last two days I have been waiting for plumbers to fix a leaking toilet. Not worrying for me, but worrying for the kind folks downstairs whose bathroom ceiling ...

TheHairyGodmother 28.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Campo Viejo Crianza Spain

DOCa from Rioja

Advantages: A superb all round full flavoured easy drinking red
Disadvantages: Slips down a treat; why have one bottle when you could make do with two?

I do not drink a great quantity of wine but over the years I have come to realise what I like and what I don’t. Some of these choices are personal and obvious: Red or white? Sweet or dry? Sparkling? Other choices are personal and not so obvious: Vintage – ...

Newfloridian 29.06.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Rioja Navajas Crianza

Wine to match my personality....soft and fruity!

Advantages: soft, light, fruity
Disadvantages: slightly peppery unless left to breath.

...I could certainly get used to drinking this soft, fruity wine in large quantities. It's low price won't break the bank either! Rioja Navajas 1998 Crianza is bottled in Spain. That particular year the wine was made entirely from the Tempranillo grape wh ...

janharper 20.07.2003 · Read full review
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A taste of red.

Advantages: smooth and fruity red wine.
Disadvantages: expensive.

...I am generally a white wine drinker, but sometimes a decent bottle of red appeals. I am not a wine snob, but find that cheap red wine tends to give me a headache. Whilst shopping in Asda recently I decided to buy a bottle of Faustino V reserva rioja. I ...

anwar 23.04.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Faustino V Reserva Rioja Spain