Finca Manzanos Tempranillo 2018/19
Finca Manzanos Tempranillo is a lightly oaked Rioja made mainly from Tempranillo. It has aromas of ripe black and red fruits, spices, liquorice and chocolate. A nicely fruity and well-balanced youthful red which has many of the hallmarks of classic Rioja. After slow fermentation in stainless steel, the wine is then aged in French and American oak barrels mostly 2nd and 3rd year use, with just 10% new American oak barrels to provide the … Read More
La Multa 2017
A smooth, concentrated and exuberant red with a huge berry fruit nose and palate, El Escoces Volante La Multa 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 Decanter (89 points), David Williams has identified La Multa as a star wine in his Decanter Magazine article March 2020 “Around Spain in 10 Garnachas.” La Multa is made … Read More
Gatito Loco 2019 (Organic)
Gatito Loco Rioja is bursting with fruit. With it’s eye-catching label depicting a Gatito Loco (literally meaning a crazy kitten), it is a young, yet full flavoured Rioja and is strikingly different. This wine has fresh, bright aromas of red and black fruits with a wonderful fresh character. Blackberry and red fruit flavours with supporting nuances of balsam, liquorice and chocolate. This is a young, un-oaked Rioja but quite complex wine and it stands … Read More
Care Garnacha Nativa 2018
Care Garnacha Nativa has fresh, powerful aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant fruits with spice, mocha and date hints. There is an abundance of ripe black fruit, spice and date flavours with almond, liquorice and toasty oak hints. This is a fresh, elegant and complex red with soft, ripe tannins and a well balanced fruity structure. There are also hints of dark cherries and coffee beans and it has excellent length and depth of flavours; … Read More
El Escoces Volante Manga del Brujo 2015/17
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 … 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
Spanish Organics – with Tasting Notes
Organic wines from Spain Spanish Organics Case Offer is a terrific selection of organic (with a couple of biodynamic) wines from four different Bodegas. Two of these wines are both organic and biodyanmic* which come from Dominio de Punctum, a family-run estate at 750 metres near Las Pedroñeras (around half way between Valencia and Madrid). They are joined by a delicous organic Verdejo from Bodegas Volver and a ‘Field Blend’ organic red from the … Read More
“Off the Beaten Track Spain” Case Offer
Spain offers so much more than Rioja, so we have put together an “Off the Beaten Track Spain” Case Offer; this is a great way of discovering six distinctive and delicious wines from less well known areas of Spain. All these wines are from small family-run producers. Discover “Off the Beaten Track Spain” Case Offer with accompanying notes. Sip your way through – Two white wines – one comes from an organic Estate in … Read More
“Behind the Label” Case Offer – Wines with a story from South Africa & Spain
“Behind the Label” Case Offer brings you wines with great stories! Discover “Behind the Label” Case Offer with accompanying notes, provides a journey in flavours that should delight most palates! Sip your way through – Two white wines from South Africa – both from family estates, one is an unusual and excellent blend (Bonfire Hill), the third white is from Spain, made from the Godello grape; a terrific white with a great story. The … Read More
Rioja Case Offer – with Tasting Notes
Includes 3 award-winning Rioja Crianzas This Rioja Case Offer helps you to discover a White Rioja and five distinctive Rioja reds from family producers, including top Rioja Bodegas of Luis Cañas, Ramon Bilbao and Urbina – at a special discount. A Rioja Case Offer which comes complete with Tasting Notes – to help you choose what to open when, and – it makes a great present. Lopez de Haro Blanco 2018 (1 bottle) Classic … Read More
Luis Cañas Rioja Case Offer
Discover wines from a top Rioja producer: Luis Cañas Rioja Case Offer “Bodegas Luis Cañas is one of the top 10 modern-style Rioja producers.” Tim Atkin MW This terrific Luis Cañas Rioja Case Offer is a limited offer to showcase their world class wines. Bodegas Luis Cañas is very much a family-run Bodega, with Juan Luis at the helm; he took over from his father in 1989 at the age of 33 and has … Read More