There's something feral about the wines of Bierzo. This area of northwest Spain in Castilla y Leon, on the edge of Galicia, has a penchant for red wines with an innate wildness. These are not ...

Bierzo, in northwestern Spain, was granted status as an official wine region only in 1989, said Dave McIntyre in The Washington Post. It even briefly challenged Priorat in eastern Spain “as the ...

Bierzo can be as maddening as it is thrilling, said Eric Asimov in The New York Times. A distinctive red from northwestern Spain, it’s made primarily from the mencía grape, and is characterized by its ...

If you live in a village in northern Spain, and a neighbor invites you in for homemade wine, you might say you’ll have un culín — a small pour. It’s a polite way of saying, “Well, maybe just one ...