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The 1999 Abadia Retuerta reveals an opaque purple color as well as a classy complex bouquet of flowers black currants raspberries cherries and vanilla. Full-bodied and elegant yet concentrated as well as powerful with impressive... Read More

The floral perfumed and expressive 2019 Cardia Pombeiras was produced with Mencía from 40-year-old vines on slate soils 0.16 hectares. It fermented with some 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in used French... Read More

The grapes for the 2019 Cardia Seoane Baja come from the middle of the slope of this vineyard in Doade in the Amandi subzone of Ribeira Sacra. It is a blend of 80% Mencía and 20% Garnacha Tintorera and matured in French barriques... Read More

The 2019 Cazoga Cepas Centenarias comes from a steep slope planted in 1910 on shallow granite soils. The vines deliver very low yields (less than 2000 kilos per hectare) and it fermented with 25% full clusters and indigenous yeasts... Read More

In 1985 in Laguardia, a small town in the Alevesa region of Rioja, a group of local vineyard owners founded Artadi as a co-operative with the view of focussing on their vineyards. This project was taken over in 1992 by the Localle... Read More

The 2021 Las Gravas contains grapes from a vineyard planted in 2006 (that already contributed to the 2020) and it has given the wine a fine-boned profile with more freshness and varietal Monastrell notes a rustic-elegant feeling.... Read More

I retasted the 2021 Clos Erasmus to compare it with the 2022 and 2023. The three vintages are very different. This 2021 has an ethereal character and comes through as a cool-climate wine; it doesn't have the same weight as... Read More

For the first time in years there's a new wine from Clos i Terrasses. And it's a white! The 2023 Laurel White comes from a plot in Manyetes with one hectare of white grapes—Garnacha Blanca Chenin Blanc Viognier and a... Read More

The 2019 Laurel is quite closed and shows serious and shy. It's made with all the grapes that are not used for Clos Erasmus—young vines the remaining Cabernet Sauvignon (no more than 5%) mostly Garnacha and some 15% Syrah.... Read More

2020 was a challenging year that gave them a lot of work in the vineyard but it it paid off. The 2020 Laurel feels very elegant balanced and fresh a little lighter perhaps with perfectly ripe tannins a little in line with 2016... Read More

The 2021 Laurel the second wine from Clos Erasmus was produced with grapes from younger vines between five and 40 years old and is a blend of 80% Garnacha 11% Syrah and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes were cooled down for 24... Read More

The 2022 Laurel has the grapes from the younger vines but still not the ones from Manyetes that will contribute to this wine in 2023 for the first time. This is quite aromatic young tender and peachy attractive. She finds this... Read More

The 2022 El Reventón from the El Reventón vineyard in Cebrerosas is the last vintage of this wine from Comando G. Starting in 2023 it is produced by the new El Reventón project from the Catena team. It's intense a condition... Read More

The nose and palate of the 2022 El Tamboril Tinto are really tight; it's a wine that needs more time (they reckon the 2016 is the one drinking well in 2024). It has a lot of energy and still has some creaminess and spiciness... Read More

The 2014 La Bruja de Rozas is produced from a variety of vineyards in the village of Rozas de Puerto Real. It's a fluid and fresh fruit-driven Garnacha with a tantalizing nose of flowers with an herbal twist wild strawberries... Read More

The village 2023 Navatalgordo has grapes (mostly purchased from regular suppliers) from five different parajes or lieu-dits from the stony and quartz soils from the village. It has a stony personality but a perfumed nose of violets... Read More

A new lieu-dit or paraje red wine the 2022 Peña la Mora 1er was produced from old-vine Garnacha from 1.17 hectares at 1200 meters in altitude and a northern exposure on granite soils in the village of Navatalgordo. This is where... Read More

The 2023 Rozas village from Rozas de Puerto Real comes from different vineyards (five) totaling five hectares on granite soils at an average altitude of 900 meters. It's juicy and has notes of pomegranate and strawberry and... Read More

Daniel Landi was born to a long family of grape growers in Mentrida, in the Sierra de Gregos mountains to the west of Madrid. He started to make wine in conjunction with his cousin at Bodegas Jiminez-Landi but he left in 2012... Read More

The juicy velvety and aromatic red 2020 Pícaro del Águila Tinto is fine-boned and quite faithfully represents what they want to express with this cuvée; it's very tasty and has some chalkiness (perhaps through less ripeness... Read More

I tasted two vintages of the entry-level wine starting with the 2021 Pícaro del Águila Tinto. It's ripe and round with round tannins velvety and polished approachable and hedonistic. It's nicely built and serious very... Read More

I also tasted the 2017 Canta la Perdiz from the low-yielding and warm year marked by spring frost. The Tempranillo field blend clusters fermented in concrete vats with natural yeasts after being foot trodden. The wine went through... Read More

2017 was a low-yielding year so I also tasted the 2018 Reserva their flagship red wine that wants to be a representation of the village of La Aguilera—fine serious and elegant. It's 95% Tempranillo with the remaining grapes... Read More