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Bodegas Manzanos 1890 Finca Manzanos Blanco Rioja is a bright, unoaked blend of Viura and Chardonnay made with freshness and fruit firmly at its centre. Lemon and grapefruit meet ripe pineapple and passion fruit, giving this white Rioja plenty of flavour without needing oak or extra weight.
Viura provides the lively regional backbone while Chardonnay adds generous ripe fruit, creating an appealing contrast between freshness and richness. Clean, polished and refreshingly direct, it's an excellent choice when you want an easy-drinking Rioja Blanco with more fruit and personality than a neutral light white, but without barrel-derived complexity.
This is white Rioja built around fruit and freshness rather than oak. Viura and Chardonnay combine vivid lemon and grapefruit with riper pineapple and passion fruit, producing a wine that's lively and refreshing but still has plenty of flavour.
It's uncomplicated in the best sense: fresh enough for easy drinking, fruity enough to be immediately appealing and polished enough to offer more character than a simple neutral white.
Merchant's Tip
I'd choose this when you want a really fresh white but don't want it to feel thin or anonymous. The Chardonnay brings a little extra generosity to the fruit while Viura keeps everything bright and lively. It's also a particularly useful alternative if you like the idea of white Rioja but aren't looking for the oak often associated with its richer styles.
Nose
Bright and expressive, with lemon and grapefruit alongside ripe pineapple, passion fruit and delicate floral notes.
Palate
Fresh and fruit-driven, combining lively citrus with generous tropical fruit. Balanced acidity gives the wine energy and definition while the palate remains smooth and approachable.
Finish
Clean and persistent, with refreshing citrus and ripe tropical fruit lingering after each sip.
Choose this if freshness and fruit are what you want from white Rioja. There's no need to appreciate oak or richer barrel-fermented styles: the attraction here is the contrast between lively citrus freshness and the riper tropical character brought by Viura and Chardonnay.
If you're looking for creamy texture, oak-derived spice and greater weight, the 1890 Blanco Viñas Viejas takes you in that direction instead. This wine owns the fresher route: bright, fruity and immediately approachable.
If you're unsure which expression suits you, our White Rioja Guide explains the different styles and what creates them.
Viura forms the majority of the blend, providing the fresh backbone and citrus character that make the wine recognisably Rioja Blanco. A smaller proportion of Chardonnay contributes riper tropical fruit and additional generosity without changing the wine's essentially fresh character.
Unlike richer barrel-fermented white Rioja, this wine is made without oak. That allows lemon, grapefruit, pineapple and passion fruit to remain at the front of the experience rather than being joined by toast, vanilla or creamy barrel character.
The result is a useful demonstration of what a straightforward modern white Rioja can achieve through the choice of grapes rather than additional maturation: freshness from Viura, generous fruit from Chardonnay and enough natural acidity to keep the combination lively and balanced.
The fresh acidity and ripe fruit make this particularly easy to pair. Try it with shellfish, grilled white fish, salads, tapas, chicken, lighter pasta dishes or simply serve it as a refreshing aperitif.
Serve well chilled at around 8–10°C. There's no need to decant it; this is a wine designed to show its fresh fruit character from the moment it's poured.
For more ideas, our Rioja Food Pairing Guide explores how different Rioja styles work at the table.
This has a very straightforward reason for being in our Rioja range: it gives us a fresh, unoaked expression of white Rioja where the choice of Viura and Chardonnay creates the interest rather than oak or extended maturation.
That also distinguishes it clearly from the 1890 Blanco Viñas Viejas. The two shouldn't be thought of as better and lesser versions of the same wine. One answers the customer looking for bright fruit and freshness; the other answers the customer looking for additional texture, richness and barrel-derived complexity.
If you like fresh white Rioja and want to compare other bottles where oak isn't central to the style, explore our non-barrel white Rioja collection.
Or visit our Bodegas Manzanos guide to see how the different wines in the range use grapes and winemaking to create distinctly different expressions of Rioja.
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