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Bodegas Manzanos 1890 Finca Manzanos Rosado Rioja is a dry, refreshing blend of Garnacha and Tempranillo with bright strawberry and raspberry fruit, delicate floral character and lively balanced acidity. It has plenty of flavour while remaining fresh, clean and immediately approachable.
Garnacha provides the vibrant red-fruit character, while Tempranillo brings a little more depth and structure to the palate. The result is a particularly versatile Rioja rosé: refreshing enough for warm-weather drinking or an aperitif, but with enough fruit and personality to work comfortably alongside food when an ultra-delicate rosé might disappear.
This is a rosé for when you want freshness without sacrificing flavour. Garnacha and Tempranillo bring plenty of bright strawberry and raspberry fruit, joined by delicate floral character and lively acidity that keeps everything crisp and refreshing.
It's dry and easy drinking, but not anonymous. There's enough fruit and structure to make it interesting on its own and particularly useful at the table.
Merchant's Tip
If you find some very pale rosés a little too delicate, this is a useful alternative. It still gives you the freshness and dry finish you probably want from rosé, but there's more obvious red fruit and enough substance to make it feel like a proper glass of wine rather than simply something cold and refreshing.
Nose
Fresh strawberry and raspberry fruit with delicate floral aromas and a bright, youthful character.
Palate
Dry, fresh and fruit-led, with juicy red berries supported by lively, well-balanced acidity. There's enough structure to give the wine presence without compromising its easy-drinking character.
Finish
Clean and refreshing, with red fruit and gentle floral notes lingering through a pleasantly persistent finish.
Choose this if you want your rosé dry and refreshing but still enjoy clearly defined fruit. Its Garnacha and Tempranillo give it more red-fruit character and substance than an extremely delicate pale rosé, while balanced acidity keeps the wine lively and easy to drink.
It's particularly useful if you want one rosé that can move easily from an aperitif to the table. If your priority is the lightest, most restrained and delicate style possible, another rosé may suit you better; this deliberately lets its fruit show.
The combination of Garnacha and Tempranillo is central to the wine's character. Garnacha brings vivid red fruit and an immediately appealing juiciness, while Tempranillo contributes additional depth and structure.
The wine is made to preserve that fresh fruit rather than build complexity through oak ageing. The result is a straightforward but characterful expression of Rioja rosé in which strawberry, raspberry and floral notes remain clear, supported by enough acidity to keep the palate dry, balanced and refreshing.
That makes the blend particularly effective: the wine has more presence than an intentionally delicate rosé without losing the freshness that makes rosé so appealing in the first place.
Its combination of fresh acidity and red fruit makes this very versatile with food. Try it with tapas, rice dishes, grilled fish, prawns and other shellfish, chicken, charcuterie, salads or lighter Mediterranean dishes.
Serve well chilled at around 8–10°C. It's equally comfortable as an aperitif or carried through a meal where a lighter white might lack enough fruit and a red would feel excessive.
For more ideas, our Rioja Food Pairing Guide explores how different Rioja styles work at the table.
This earns its place for a very simple reason: Rioja shouldn't force a customer to choose between red and white. This gives us a genuinely useful third route — dry and refreshing like a white, but with the obvious red-fruit character and slightly greater presence that Garnacha and Tempranillo can bring to rosé.
It also continues a pattern emerging across the Finca Manzanos wines. They aren't simply differentiated by colour. Each one is trying to provide a clear, approachable expression of its grapes and style without unnecessary complication.
If you enjoy the fresh, fruit-led character of this wine but would prefer white, try our 1890 Finca Manzanos Blanco Rioja. It follows a similarly direct route through Viura and Chardonnay, putting freshness and fruit ahead of oak.
Or visit our Bodegas Manzanos guide to explore how the different wines in the range use grape varieties, maturation and style to answer quite different drinking occasions and preferences.
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