A blend of Garnacha and Cariñena from 80- to 100-year-old vines. Dense purple colour; creamy blackberry nose with vanilla oak; full-bodied, rich plum and raisin flavours with balancing acidity; firmly structured and lingering with a coffee-bean note on the finish. Chunky mouthfeel.
Limited edition. Made from Viura and Malavasia grapes fermented in new French barriques, this wine offers intense yellow fruit and mellow, oaky vanilla aromas. Equally concentrated flavours in the mouth pick up leaner green fruit notes, with a trace of lime and focused acidity, finishing very dry but with a contrasting splash of vanilla.
This ripe, punchy and fruity Verdejo is pierced by a herbal lime pith. Peach, pineapple rind, tangerine, green apple and melon move briskly on the palate, swept along with a broom of scrubby herbs and spicy saffron. Great value for a taste of the Mediterranean. Seafood paella, here's your match.
The wine possesses a wonderful broad texture while still maintaining freshness with flavours of citrus and a hint of nuttiness, which allows it to pair well with seafoods that tend to be meatier like swordfish and lobster.
An example of Spain’s answer to France’s Bordeaux blends (without the hefty price tag). This popular trend in Spanish viticulture takes Cabernet Sauvignon, the international kid on the block and blends it with Spain’s darling grape,Tempranillo. This 50/50 blend is a dark ruby colour, seductively perfumed with leather, cedar, and smoky aromas. At first sip, the Cabernet provides much of the wine’s structure, with flavours of blackcurrant followed by a whisper of vanilla. Mid-palate the Tempranillo shines through with sweet and savoury flavours of lightly spiced stewed cherries infused with cedar. Medium-bodied with moderate acidity and tannins, making it an easy-to-drink wine that will appeal to every palate. A weekday wine that is perfect with burgers, pizzas and steaks. Needless to say, this wine would also make a nice base for sangria. Olé!
The Campo de Borja region is known for its Garnacha. Deep ruby colour with an earthy, liquorice nose of blackberries with a note of herbs, this wine is medium-bodied and dry with a spicy blackberry flavour and a vanilla oak finish. Good value.
Alvaro Palacios is one of Spain’s great winemakers whose range of wines can get very pricey. But at the introductory level, he makes this bargain wine from Rioja. Deep ruby-plum in colour, it has an earthy, cedary nose of sour cherries. Medium- to full-bodied, it’s dry and fruity and easy-drinking. The wine always contains around 8% of wine from the previous harvest that stays in barriques for 1 year.