Pablo Claro Tempranillo 2017 (Organic)
Pablo Claro Tempranillo, which has the added bonus of being an organic wine, is a tasty wine at this price level. Attractive blackberry and dark cherry aromas. This wine is full-flavoured and light at the same time, with juicy blackberry fruit and excellent structure. Pablo Claro is a medium bodied organic red, with soft tannins and finesse and a wonderful label! Made from organically grown grapes at Dominio de Punctum, a family-run estate in … Read More
Almaraz Tempranillo 2017
Almaraz Tempranillo from Bodegas del Medievo in Rioja, was one of our most popular new wines over the last couple of years. An appealing, soft and very lightly oaked Rioja. It has berry fruit aromas coupled with a touch of vanilla oak and a juicy berry fruit, spicy palate. Made from 90% young tempranillo grapes from the 2017 vintage and 10% of tempranillo grapes from Medievo Crianza 2015, the latter have spent 12 months … Read More
El Escoces Volante La Multa 2015
La Multa 2015 is a smooth, concentrated red with a huge berry fruit nose and palate. This wine has character, lots of spicy well balanced damson/plum fruit and a sweet oak finish. It has scored very highly for a wine of this price, in the independed Spanish Penin Wine Guide. Made with grapes from gnarly old bush vines by talented Scots wine maker Norrel Robertson in collaboration with Bodega San Gregorio in DO Calatayud, … Read More
El Abuelo 2016/17 (Organic)
El Abuelo (Organic) comes from Bodegas Piqueras in DO Almansa and joins our increasing number of organic wines. A blend of one of our favourite, indigenous Spanish grapes, Monastrell with Tempranillo. It has smoky, cherry and plum aromas coupled with spice and sage hints. Plums and cherry fruit flavours predominate with juicy tannins and it has a nice smooth balance with good intensity. This wine is made from dry-farmed 25 – 35 year old … Read More
Bodegas y Vińedos Merayo Mencia
Merayo is an inviting young red made from the lovely Mencia grape with aromas of violets, cherries, blueberries and mushroom hints. It has a smooth, cherry fruit and spice palate with ripe tannins and structure. The 2017 vintage is the same high standard as previous vintages. Pedro Merayo’s vineyards escaped the worst of the late frosts which hit other parts of DO Bierzo, which was mentioned in our Vintage Report 2017. Similar to Cabernet … Read More
Dominio de Punctum Roble 2015 (organic)
Dominio de Punctum Roble 2015 is an appealing blend of Tempranillo and Petit Verdot made from organic grapes, using biodynamic practices. The 2015 vintage shows intense and creamy blackcurrant aromas laced with a touch of cedary oak. This is followed by attractive and fresh blackcurrant and cherry fruit flavours with cinnamon spice coupled with a smooth, almost creamy texture and lovely mouth feel. This is a a terrific blend, showing some complexity and well … Read More
Medievo Selección Especial 2015
Medievo Selección Especial 2015, from a very good vintage, is immediately appealing on the nose with spicy blackberry fruit with cedary notes. On taste it has an expressive blackberry and cherry palate which is succulent and fruity with excellent structure. This wine has a great balance of fruit and oak from its 6 months in American oak barrels. A modern Rioja Roble which is the equal of many Rioja Crianzas with a smooth texture, … Read More
Enrique Mendoza La Tremenda Monastrell 2016
Enrique Mendoza La Tremenda Monastrell 2016 is immediately inviting with aromas of black cherries and hints of mediterranean herbs, spice, toast and cocoa. This is followed by rich cherry fruit flavours and nice savoury, ripe tannins. It has a lovely silky texture and very good length. Made from the Monastrell grape which is known as Mourvedre in France, where it plays a starring role in Chateauneuf du Pape. It has spent 6 months in … Read More
Gran Colegiata Lágrima Roble 2015
Gran Colegiata Lágrima Roble is a typical example of a sumptuous and approachable red wine from the Toro area in Northern Spain. Aromas of cinnamon spice, plums and cherries intermingle with subtle vanilla oak. These are followed by juicy blackberry and plum fruit flavours and attractive minerality. A full-bodied red, with warm, ripe and soft tannins and good length. This wine gets it’s name Lagrima (Spanish for Tears) because it is made from the … Read More
Bodegas Olarra Cerro Añon Crianza 2015
Cerro Añon Crianza has a very inviting blackberry/blackcurrant nose with hints of spice and vanilla. It is classic Rioja with a warm, moreish and elegant palate showing blackcurrants, plums and lighter hints of strawberries, herbs and mocha on the finish. The 2015 vintage of this Crianza is sporting a new label, but the contents are just as good, if not better than earlier vintages. This is a consistent Rioja Crianza year on year and … Read More
Mil Historias Bobal 2017 (Organic)
Mil Historias Bobal 2017 (organic) is a rich and deep red wine. It arrests the senses with Intense aromas of ripe, black fruit with rosemary herb hints and a touch of black pepper. The flavours are equally intense, there is blackcurrant, cherry fruit together with peppery, liquorice and chocolate hints. This full-bodied red has a lovely full, savoury and complex finish. Wines made from this widely planted grape, the Bobal, mainly found in the … Read More
El Escoces Volante Manga del Brujo 2015
Manga del Brujo has a complex, rich, spicy damson and plum nose with hints of garrigue and chocolate. These are followed by rich strawberry, plum fruit flavours and pepper notes. This is a big wine which is superbly concentrated, elegant and yet burly at the same time! 5 months in oak barrel has given this intensely flavoured wine a perfect balance and great length. Hand-picked grapes from selected, very low-yield vines give this wine it’s … Read More
Bodegas Urbina Crianza 2009/11
Bodegas Urbina Crianza 2009 oozes the classic, elegance and charm of a mature Rioja. This is a beautifully refined wine in perfect balance – this is what mature Rioja is all about! We are enjoying the 2015 Rioja Crianzas at the moment, but this is something different to discover. We are about to move onto the 2011 vintage which has also attracted 92 points from Tim Atkin MW in his 2019 Special Rioja Report! … Read More
Luis Cañas Crianza 2015
Luis Cañas Crianza has rich blackcurrant and raspberry aromas with hints of creamy oak with enticing balsam hints. This leads you into its concentrated, rich fruit flavours and complex, savoury layers. It is such an elegant, yet appealing Rioja Crianza, with great structure, excellent balance and smooth round tannins. We are always impressed by the quality and price of this stylish Crianza which is more like a Reserva in elegance, complexity and depth of flavours. … Read More
Medievo Tuerce Botas Crianza 2015
Medievo Tuerco Botas Crianza gets your attention with its appealing aromas of almonds and wild berries with toasty cedary notes. It has a powerful, complex and creamy textured palate with mature, ripe cherry and blackcurrant fruit. It is both savoury and elegant with well integrated tannins and a very long, fresh finish. One of the few Riojas made totally from the lovely Graciano grape and aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. Graciano … Read More
Ramon Bilbao Edición Limitada Crianza 2015
Ramon Bilbao Edición Limitada Crianza has rich aromas of black fruit and inviting black pepper and spicy notes on the nose, coupled with complex aromas of cocoa and chocolate mingled with oak hints. Intense black and damson flavours develop with a silky warmth and combine with liquorice nuances and toasty oak. This is a full-flavoured, complex limited edition Rioja Crianza. It has a velvety mouthfeel, ripe tannins coupled with excellent structure, balance and brilliant … Read More
Cuvee de Cair 2015/16
Cuvee de Cair is a Roble (oak aged wine) from Dominio de Cair. Tempranillo is blended with a touch of Merlot and aged in oak for 9 months. The result is complex, layered aromas of black fruits, chocolate and mocha coupled with a rich, intense, highly structured palate of savoury black fruit with creamy oak notes and excellent length. It has a beautiful balance of tannins and fruit. A special wine, and if you … Read More
Luis Cañas Reserva 2013
Luis Cañas Reserva is a beautifully balanced, special wine from one of the top Rioja Bodegas. It has a spicy, blackcurrant nose with a touch of creamy oak. The flavours show flavourful dark berry fruits together with layers of cocoa, oak and balsam hints. It displays leafy tannins, good structure, real elegance and length. Overall a lighter style than Muga Reserva Especial but a step up on the very good Luis Cañas Crianza 2015. … Read More
Cillar de Silos Torre Silo 2007
Elegance and finesse shine out from Cillar de Silos wines. The nose is complex, with dark cherry, blackberry fruit laced with leather, balsam, liquorice and mineral undertones. This leads on to complex layers of ripe mature brambly fruit, with hints of coffee and chocolate. An intense, robust, yet elegant wine with terrific structure, perfect balance and brilliant length. Their 48 hectare vineyard in the heart of Ribera del Duero is run by Oscar, Roberto … Read More
Bodegas Urbina Gran Reserva 2004
Bodegas Urbina Gran Reserva 2004 is a wonderfully mature Rioja which seduces you immediately with its very attractive, complex aromas of black fruit, leather and cedary oak. These lead you into layers of rich, savoury blackcurrant and berry fruit flavours that are in complete harmonious balance with oak. This is a wine of great finesse, velvet smoothness and wondrous length. It has good structure, with some firm tannins in the background which mean that … Read More
Mas D’en Gil Coma Vella 2010
2010 VINTAGE HAS ARRIVED – EVEN BETTER VALUE From family-run vineyards in the steep hills around Sierra del Montsant, one of the top producers in Priorat, produce consistently fine wines year on year. The secret of Priorat wines is undoubtedly the amazing slate and quartz rocky soils which convey a wonderful mineral complexity to the wines. Cherry colour, with powerful ripe plums and fig nose coupled with balsamic notes. The palate is intense, complex, … Read More
Dominio de Cair Crianza 2013
Dominio de Cair Crianza is a full-bodied wine. It is so appealing, elegant and refined, with intense and complex aromas of blackcurrant fruit, leather and dark chocolate and a wonderfully complex and succulent palate of blackfruits with well integrated oak. This wine demonstrates how power and finesse can be brilliantly combined; the flavours really do go on and on. A consistently excellent Ribera Crianza. In 2013 despite a cool start to the growing year, … Read More
Muga Selección Especial Reserva 2011
Muga Selección Especial Reserva 2011 is a stunning, limited edition Reserva which is only made in very good years. Dark, brambly and red fruit together with subtle oak aromas are coupled with balsamic, mint and liquorice notes. The mature berry fruit flavours are intense and complex with peppery spice, and coffee hints coupled with excellent balance and length. This is more like a really fine Gran Reserva in style with beautifully integrated oak; rich … Read More