2022 Spanish Wine

Robert Parker called the 2011 edition of this perennial favorite value red, “Possibly the single greatest dry red wine value in the world.” As usual, it’s a blend of around 85% Garnacha plus Tempranillo and a... Read More

A sexy, luxurious, wine that will bowl you over with complexity and richness. It’s 100% Garnacha Blanca and opens with wild aromas of Mediterranean herbs, spice, wet stones and a bit of citrus zest. On the palate it’s... Read More

Organic/Bio The absolute essence of very old vine Garnacha grown at high altitudes in remote, nearly abandoned, Sirra de Gredos about 45 minutes from Madrid. The flavors are mostly what you’d expect – ripe raspberries... Read More

Like Terra Alta (south Catalonia) itself, this is a bit wild and untamed but showing sings for learning a bit of polish from its northerly neighbor, Priorat. It’s 100% Garnacha and positively explodes with dark red berry... Read More

Organic/Bio When everyone else in Rueda was planting crummy grapes to replace those devastated by phylloxera, the farmers at what is now this outstanding Rueda winery just kept tending their vines in the cool, sandy, soils between... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Imagine Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir had a thin slip of a child who was somehow strong enough to haul bins of juicy, red fruited, grapes up and down nearly vertical slops of rocky, wild herb, covered hills,... Read More

Lower ABV The great grape of Ribeiro - inland from Rias Baixas - is Treixadura and Manuel Formiga's family has helped reestablish it after it was largely abandoned for more productive Palomino after phylloxera. But they still... Read More

Same silky-delicious Garnacha Las Uvas De La Ira from Gredos Daniel Landi made for years, now from his partnership with Curro Bareño. You smell the hot and powdery Gredos dirt right through the rich raspberry fruit. The... Read More

Another delicious expression of mountain Garnacha from the hills outside Madrid and Gredos master Daniel Landi (here working with partner Curro Bareño. The light color and blend of delicate mouthfeel and intense red fruit... Read More

Organic/Bio Blind I’d have guessed this was high-elevation Grenache – and it is! From Sara Pérez and René Barbier, founders of Priorat’s Clos Mogador and Clos Martinet, this is from vines in the... Read More