DOUBLE GOLD FOR LA RIOJANA AT ARGENTINE BONARDA COMPETITION 2019

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La Riojana was delighted to win a grand total of five gold medals, including one of the competition’s top two medals, Double Gold, at the recent 6th Argentine Bonarda Competition held in Mendoza, Argentina on Saturday 30th August 2019. 

The top scoring wine for La Riojana was Raza Argentina Bonarda Reserve 2018, which was awarded a Double Gold medal and an impressive 93 points. This was followed by four wines Solombra Bonarda Organico 2018; 75 Vendimias – 500 Familias Bonarda; Santa Florentina Reserva Bonarda 2018 and Raza Argentina Cosecha Seleccionada Bonarda 2018, all of which were awarded Gold medals. In addition to this, La Riojana’s Tilimuqui Fairtrade Organic Bonarda 2018 won a Bronze medal. 

Roberto Mantovani, General Manager for La Riojana, commented “We are absolutely delighted with these results, particularly as for the past couple of years we have been getting behind this varietal, knowing that it can make great quality wines.”


LA RIOJANA WINS IWC FAIRTRADE AWARD FOR THE CO-OP FAIRTRADE MALBEC

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La Riojana wins IWC Fairtrade Award for the Co-op Fairtrade Malbec

We are delighted to announce that we have won this year’s IWC Fairtrade Award. This goes to the top performing Fairtrade wine from the 2019 IWC competition which this year was the Silver medal winning Co-op Fairtrade Organic Malbec 2017, part of the award-winning range of own-brand wines produced by La Riojana for the Co-op, described by the competition as having "spicy, rich blackberry fruits, fine grain tannins, balanced, inky with integrated oak. Ripe and rich".

This highly-coveted Fairtrade Award was announced as one of the IWC’s Planet Earth Awards on 9th July 2019 at the annual International Wine Challenge awards dinner held in London. 

The International Wine Challenge (IWC), which is now in its 36th year, is one of the world’s finest and most meticulously judged wine competitions, where every wine is assessed blind and is judged for its faithfulness to style, region and vintage. Wine entries came from over 40 countries and were judged by a panel of 400 international wine experts from 38 countries. 

La Riojana has been producing Fairtrade wines for The Co-op since 2006 and during this time working together, not only has the partnership produced award-winning wines but the sales of these wines have resulted in highly successful Fairtrade-funded projects, including a new village drinking water facility, new secondary school and soon to be new health centre, all of which are having an incredible impact on La Riojana’s local communities. 

Nick Day, Sales Director for La Riojana, comments: “It means a lot to La Riojana to have received this award from such an influential competition and it seems a fitting tribute to a one of our most popular wines.”



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