Spain makes more wine than it can reasonably drink, in more styles than any single guide can carry. This almanac is our reading of it. 141 regions, ranked the way we'd visit them; the houses our critics keep returning to; and a short list of restaurants where we'd spend the evening.
Femente · Country Almanac
A wine atlas ofSpain
Spain
141
15,276
5,784
The country, in numbers and adjectives.
The terroirs, by hand.
9 regions worth the trip first — chosen by the Femente desk for the houses we’d open with, the variety of styles within each, and the cooking that grew up around them.
Castilla y León
Castilla y León makes wines of dark fruit and mineral grip, where Tempranillo ages into leather and earth rather than polish. The…
Catalunya
Catalonia builds wines around contrasts: lean, mineral reds from slate hillsides meet voluptuous sparkling wines from the same limestone…
Rioja
Rioja's red wines age in a way few Spanish regions dare—stretched across years in oak, softened into silk, their Tempranillo bones…
Castilla
Castilla's reds strip continental climate down to its essence: high-altitude vineyards yield wines of dark fruit intensity and mineral…
Vino de España
Spanish wine exists in constant negotiation between tradition and appetite—between the austere Tempranillos and Garnachas that shaped the…
Galicia
Galicia's Atlantic climate pulls taut wines from granite and schist: mineral whites that taste of sea spray and stone, reds built on…
Valencia
Valencia pulls hard between the old Levantine tradition of pale, frothy reds and a newer generation chasing structure in Bobal and…
Aragón
High-altitude Aragonese reds strip away softness, favoring mineral grip and savory depth over fruit sweetness. Winemakers here chase…
Andalucía
Andalucía swings between bone-dry sherries that cut like flint and rich, oxidized reds that taste of earth and time—a region where…
The country’s house grammar.
The 8 styles Spain makes most of, ranked by bottle count on Femente. The bar beneath each cell shows that style’s share of spain’s production.
16,852
Spanish Red — the country’s most numerous bottle.
10,352
8,792
6,505
4,790
4,296
3,752
2,534
The houses that keep showing up.
9 Spain estates the prestige critics have agreed on — ordered by the count of 95+ scores across Vinous, Decanter, Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator.
Where to spend the evening.
12 rooms across Spain our editors keep coming back to — chosen for the cooking and the wine list, in that order.
ABaC Restaurant
Creative · European — Barcelona
100
Atrio Toño Perez
Traditional · European — Cáceres
100
DiverXO
Spanish Style · Creative — Madrid
100
Lasarte Restaurant
Creative · European — Barcelona
100
Restaurante Arzak
Ethnic Fusion · European — San Sebastián
100
Noor Restaurant
Modern · Mediterranean — Córdoba
100
Quique Dacosta
Creative · Spanish Style — Dénia
100
Cenador de Amós
Grill · Spanish Style · Traditional — Medio Cudeyo
100
COCINA Hermanos Torres. Nuestro restaurante, nuestro sueño.
Spanish Style · Modern — Barcelona
100
Amelia by Paulo Airaudo
Grill · Spanish Style · Traditional — San Sebastián
97
LÚ, Cocina y Alma
Dessert · Grill · Modern — Jerez
96
Maralba Restaurante
Traditional · Spanish Style — Almansa
96
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