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Torres Celeste Ribera del Duero Crianza 2017
$40.00At 895 metres altitude you can almost touch the stars standing in this vineyard, hence the name. Torres’ Celeste Ribera del Duero Crianza 2017 is an opulent wine. Cherry red colour with garnet highlights. Delicious, voluptuous aroma of very ripe black fruit (blueberries) with fine roasted coffee and dried plum notes. Dense, fleshy, with sensuous […]
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Olivier Riviere Rioja Tinto Rayos Uva 2019
$35.00Contemporary Rioja meets traditional Rioja. Vibrant, juicy red and black fruits, with a dusting of herbs and spices. Sleek palate and chalky tannins. The very young red 2019 Rayos Uva shows nice aromas and the roundness of 2019, when Rivière had lower yields, and the fruit is very defined. There is a change to adapt to the vintage, so […]
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La Rioja Alta Vina Arana Gran Reserva 2012
$95.00Classic nose with savoury character over a sweet spices background with elegant cigar box notes. Mouth-watering with a full body and chewy mid-palate. 97 points – Decanter Few would dispute that La Rioja Alta is the leading quality-focused producer in Spain’s most famous wine region. Since the coming together of five growers to form the estate 130 […]
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Venta La Vega Adaras Calizo 2019
$28.00The young red 2019 Adaras Calizo was produced with Garnacha Tintorera grapes grown on the limestone soils where it can express Mediterranean character with good freshness. The abundant rain during the harvest presented plenty of challenges, but the wines have low alcohol (13.3%) and more freshness, expressing the variety. It fermented with part of full […]
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La Rioja Alta 904 Gran Reserva 2011
$170.00Lovely dried red fruit, such as plums with just a hint of prunes. Cedar, walnut and leather undertones. Full- bodied with lots of fruit, considering its age, as well as hints of smoke, tobacco, bark and black tea. Some balsamic at the finish. Traditionally styled with lovely results. Drink or hold. 96 points – James […]
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La Rioja Alta Vina Alberdi Reserva 2014
$55.00Dried red cherries, paprika, coconut, dried strawberries and earth. Medium body, steely and subtle tannins and a red plum-soaked, medium-chewy finish. 92 points – James Suckling Few would dispute that La Rioja Alta is the leading quality-focused producer in Spain’s most famous wine region. Since the coming together of five growers to form the estate 130 years […]
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La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Reserva 2012
$85.00Traditional and beautiful in character with plum, balsamic, orange-peel and leather aromas and flavors. It’s medium-to full-bodied with creamy texture and a long, intense aftertaste. 95 points – James Suckling Voted Best Spanish Red 2020, Decanter Magazine Few would dispute that La Rioja Alta is the leading quality-focused producer in Spain’s most famous wine region. Since the coming […]
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Olivier Riviere Rioja Tinto Gabaxo 2018
$42.00The 2018 Gabaxo was singing when I tasted it. Despite 2018 being a more austere year, this was floral and elegant, insinuating and nuanced, very expressive. This is different from the previous years when the wine was a 50/50 blend of Garnacha and Tempranillo. Now, there’s less Tempranillo and more Garnacha, and Graciano comes into […]
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Alfredo Maestro Vina Almate Tempranillo 2019
$31.00As always, delicious and remarkable value from this Spanish Maestro. The Vina Almate 2019 is classic Tempranillo with brambly fruits, cherry cola, dried flowers and graphite. There’s a marked coolness, contrasting the sweet dark and red fruits. Sandy tannins, that really drive the wine. Terrific stuff and extremely versatile to match with food. Waters Wine […]
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Venta la Vega Adaras Aldea 2019
$23.00Garnacha Tintorera and a small amount of Syrah are harvested at night, with the fruit going into stainless steel tanks where fermentation occurs naturally over around 20 days. Malolactic fermentation also occurs naturally, with the wine then resting for three months in old French oak foudres before bottling. Perez’s Venta La Vega Adaras Aldea 2019 is bright, […]
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Veronica Ortega Cobrana 2017
$48.00This wine comes from the village of Cobrana in the north east of Bierzo. It is Mencia but with a little palmino and godello as the vineyards were traditionally planted with some white grapes in the past. The reason why Veronica has started to work with this vineyard is because it is planted straight into […]
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Akutain Crianza Rioja 2016
$50.00Fermented in fiberglass vats with native yeasts, and then raised for 1 year and 9 months in used American oak barrels, with an additional year in the bottle before release – far exceeding the Rioja D.O.’s ageing requirements for Crianza wines. What’s unusual is that they exclusively use grapes from their 6.4 hectares of vineyards, […]
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Akutain Reserva Rioja 2014
$60.00Fermented with native yeasts in fiberglass vats, and raised in older American oak for 2 years and 10 months, with additional year in the bottle before release. A throwback to Rioja’s past. What’s unusual is that they exclusively use grapes from their 6.4 hectares of vineyards, all within five kilometers from the winery in the villages of […]
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Valenciso 10 Anos Rioja 2008
$90.00The 2008 is just the third release of this leftfield Rioja and arguably the finest to date. Bottled in 2018, hence the name ’10 Years After’, the extended ageing in concrete results in no loss of colour and only seems to intensify the wine’s fruit purity and aromatic expression. Meanwhile the striking palate is both […]
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Valenciso Laderas De Cabama 2014
$37.00This is a wonderful introduction to Rioja. The 2014 Laderas de Cabama is bursting with silky red cherry, liquorice and chocolate and a touch of fine tannin on the finish. A fine, sexy Rioja and great value. “Powerful and concentrated, this has a great tannin structure that makes it seem rather young for its age. […]
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Veronica Ortega Quite Mencia 2018
$32.00Veronica Ortega is based in Valtuille de Abajo, and this wine comes from various parcels of organically tended old (80 years) vines around the village. 100% Mencía aged for seven months, half in amphorae and half in old oak, it has a lovely texture, and is full of red fruit flavour with floral hints. A […]
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Veronica Ortega Version Original Mencia 2017
$58.00The 2017 VO Versión Original is an old-vine Mencía from the same vineyards where Ortega gets the grapes for ROC, but these vines are in the lower part where there’s more sand and deeper soils, which tends to produce more concentrated wine. The full clusters fermented with indigenous yeasts, and the wine matured in a […]
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Valenciso Reserva Rioja 2012
$62.002012 was a warm and dry year, when some vines were blocked and stopped ripening the grapes. Surprisingly enough, many wines have retained more freshness than what the natural conditions of the year anticipated. Valenciso’s 2012 Reserva has more stuffing and power than the 2011 and comes from a year that was saved by some […]
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Pesquera Reserva 2012
$77.00Pesquera Reserva is made entirely from 100% Tinta del Pais – the local name given to Ribera’s own thick-skinned version of Tempranillo. Sourced from older vines, and aged for 24-30 months in oak (followed by 12 months in bottle), the Reserva is an intense, powerful wine. The Fernández’ team have been known to drop 50% […]
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La Rioja Alta Vina Arana Gran Reserva 2014
$92.00Three years in barrel and three in bottle. This has amazing aromatics: sweet blackberry and black cherry fruit with dried herbs, tar and spice, as well as some hints of vanilla and coconut, and sweet tobacco, too. The palate is juicy and supple, but also quite profound, showing cherries, berries, spice, sweet herbs, some cedar […]
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