Winemaker Notes: The Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot varieties with which this wine is made belong to the oldest part of their La Planta estate; cultivated at 911 meters of altitude in the clay-calcareous soils, with the limestone...
Tasting Notes: Opaque, dark cherry red. Intense, concentrated. Seductively expressive fruit (jammy cassis) culminating in delicate dried fruit notes (plum) and a distinctive, terroir-imparted mineral nuance. The palate is firm, lively,...
PRIMA Notes: 2005 was the debut vintage of Celeste, the first Torres wine to be made from grapes grown in Ribera del Duero. This incursion into foreign territory was based on quality, not quantity, and Celeste quickly became known not only as...
El Chaparral De Vega Sindoa comes from very old Grenache vines (70—100 YEARS OLD) Bright cherry red with violet tones. Black raspberries and delicate wild-herb notes. Fine-grained tannins and fresh long finish that promises ageing potential.
It’s 100% Garnacha (Grenache) from very high altitude vines from the three peaks (the real Tres Picos, the ones on the label) of the Campo de Borja in the northeastern part of the country. Hand harvested and lovingly handled, these old vines...
Displays toasty baking spices, nutmeg, spring flowers, marzipan, and pit fruits. The partial oak and lees aging gives this Verdejo additional roundness, complexity, and length.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The red 2018 Altos de la Hoya was produced with Monastrell grapes from old ungrafted vines. It has a creamy and balsamic touch with sweet spices intermixed with ripe berry fruit and notes of pencil lead and...
What a marvelous “second” wine from producer Josep-Maria Vendrell! 80% Grenache with the rest Cariñena, organically farmed and minimally handled in the cellar from vineyards growing around the village of Marca in Montsant. This is...
Filipa Pato admirably keeps the tradition alive with her delicious and unpretentious brut rosé made from a blend of Bairrada's signature noble red variety Baga and the tangy high acid white grape, Bical. Spicy and zesty with notes of bright citrus...
Tasting Notes:Straw yellow with greenish hues, the Lícia Albariño has strong varietal characteristics with hints of grapefruit, candied fruit, quince jelly, notes of fresh herbs, green apples, and minerals. It is full bodied and well...
Fresh black and blue fruit aromas are lifted and sharpened by a peppey note and a suggestion of smoky minerals. Vibrant and focused on the palate, offering intense boysenberry and cassis flavos that put on weight with aeration. Seamless and expressive,...
Petillant is a vi d’agulla, the Catalan name for prickly wine. This vibrant and refreshing wine is the traditional summertime quaffer of the Penedès region of Catalonia, and it's perfect for drinking out of a porrón...
30% Macabeu, 30% Xarel.lo and 40% Parellada; second fermentation and aging is under cork. Aged 20 months on the lees in bottle. All riddling and disgorging is also done by hand. Residual sugar less than 9 g/l Pale yellow color with greenish...
Winery Notes: The grapes come from vineyards with low yields located high on the hillsides, 700-1000 metres above sea level. The vineyards are planted in mainly decomposed slate and gravely clay soils. The fermentation was carried out in stainless...
Wine Notes: The Bluegray Priorat is a full-throated red wine, packed with black fruit flavors and, despite its alcohol strength of 15%, drinks beautifully, particularly with savory meals of grilled steaks and chops or other hearty repasts...
Wine Advocate: 92 Points - The village red 2014 Torroja Vi de Vila wants to show the marriage between Garnacha and Cariñena blended in a 50/50 proportion and grown on diverse plots of the village where the character is warm, but it's not...
Winery Notes: The Torremilanos winery is located in the heart of the Ribera del Duero region near the town of Aranda. Its wine-making traditions date back to 1903. Sitting next to the mountains and with the known extremes of climate of the region,...
Winery Notes: Petillant is a vi d’agulla, the Catalan name for prickly wine. This vibrant and refreshing wine is the traditional summertime quaffer of the Penedès region of Catalonia, and it's perfect for drinking out of a...
The grapes are harvested by hand, in 18-kilo crates, towards the end of September. The grapes that are used to make DESCONCIERTO are selected in the vineyard.In the winery they undergo a long pressing, on average 4 hours, with graduated low intensity...
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Blend: 85% Ull de Llebre (Tempranillo), 5% Garnatxa, 5% Cariñena & 5% SyrahVineyards: The majority of the vineyard parcels are located on slopes, on calcareous soils with gravel and good drainage.Winemaking: Hand harvested...
The grapes used for Mestizaje Blanco come from Finca Calvestra, which is owned by the winery. The vineyards, which are located at more than 900 metres of altitude, are grown by organic viticulture with goblet and a trellis and occupy about 87...
Bobal is a native varietal found around Valencia on the Mediterranean coast. Bodegas Mustiguillo has become renowned in Spain for their work with Bobal and is the producer behind this great little value red. Aromas of brambly berry, black olive, and...
A mixture of limestone, decomposed granite and clay. A majority of the blend is comprised of grapes grown on the granite and clay sites with some limestone used to create structure and depth.Bertrand Sourdais, the head of the project is working with the...
Tempranillo (95%) and Mazuelo (2%) from estate-owned vineyards in Briñas, Labastida and Villalba and Graciano (3%) from our Montecillo vineyard.
The selected clusters were picked manually into boxes that were transported to the winery in...
Winery Notes: On that year it rained very little in comparison to a normal average year. June was very cold and as a consequence the budding as well as the fecundation were affected reducing the quantity all over Rioja in general and in our...
Winery Notes: Named for the mountains that surround the Priorat, the Monsant has many of the same qualities of its neighbor- namely high elevation to provide freshness and minerality to the wines and a generous climate resulting in richness and...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 94 Points The NV Fino Inocente must be one of the few wines in Jerez that is still fermented in 600-liter American oak botas, which is an incredible amount of work compared with fermenting tens of thousands of kilos...
95 Points Robert Parker's Wine AdvocateThe NV Don Gonzalo Oloroso 20 Anos VOS, produced with Palomino grapes from the Carrascal vineyards, is fermented in stainless steel and aged for over 20 years in oak botas. It is a very serious Oloroso, even if...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 Points:The 2008 Vina el Pison comes from a single vineyard planted in 1945 on pure limestone. It is the epitome of elegance with a sensual bouquet, a silky texture, already complex flavors, and a lengthy, pure finish. It...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97+ Points:The 2007 Termanthia is, like the 2007 Numanthia, a bit more accessible than its 2006 counterpart. That is to say that it should begin to become civilized with a mere 6-8 years of cellaring and should offer a...
Winemaker's Note:#5 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 of 2017The vineyards, located at an elevation of 1,050 feet, are comprised of the famous chalky soil called Albariza and the 40-year-old vines produce extremely low yields. The grapes were hand-harvested at the...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 95 Points The 2012 Valbuena was cropped from a vintage with a very dry and warm summer that resulted in very healthy grapes. Since the 2010 vintage, this wine is fermented plot by plot following the findings from a...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 95 Points Following the style of the Clio from the same vintage, the 2015 El Nido is a powerful, ripe and concentrated blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with 30% Monastrell aged in a combination of French and American...
Robert Parker The Wine Advocate: 92 Points
The 2008 Espectacle del Montsant has a very distinctive, oyster shell-scented bouquet that expresses its terroir extremely well, hints of fennel emerging with continued aeration. The palate is fleshy in...