Spanish Red Wine between $25 and $50

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

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

Listán Prieto with a bit of Tintilla sourced frommultiple, old-vine, piè franco parcels at over1,000m. Each parcel vinified separately, somein concrete and some in small open tubs.Roughly 10 days maceration with... Read More

Negramoll, Listán Negro and a bit of Listán Blanco from three north-facing parcels ofcentenarian piè franco vines in the La Corujera area, ranging from 350-650m above sea level.The vines are planted on sand... Read More

I tasted a very promising barrel sample of the 2023 Lousas Viñas de Aldea cropped from a more Atlantic cooler and rainier year (especially when compared with the super warm and dry 2022). Right now it's super primary (the... Read More

Listán Negro from centenarian piè franco vines trained in the ancient cordon trenzado in theLa Habanera parcel at 600m. The grapes fermented and macerated on the skins and stems in concrete tank for 15 days without... Read More

Listán Negro from centenarian piè franco vines trained in the ancient cordon trenzado in two parcels at 350m and 600m. The grapes were foot-trodden and fermented by parcel in large concrete vats with some whole clusters,then... Read More

I tasted the bottled 2022 Migan which was paler than the sample of 2023 I tasted next to it and also felt more reductive. Sixty-three percent of the wine was with lees in used 500- and 600-liter oak barrels and the rest (from... Read More

Many different local red grape varieties including Listán Negro, Listán Gaucho, and Malvasia Negro.
From ancient parcels at 75-300m right on the coast. The vines are own-rooted and untrained, and the precarious slopes... Read More

The 2023 Táganan Tinto comes from a very good vintage in the zone of Taganana a very complete year with enough rain and perfect textbook conditions. They picked the grapes from Taganana later than the ones from La Orotava. It... Read More

Sensal is evolving to become Javi’s “Village” wine blended from several sites planted with Garnacha, Monastrell, Bonicaire, and Arcos. All the sites are situated around 700 meters above sea level near the village... Read More

The 2012 Viña Tondonia Reserva comes from a very dry year with 25% less rain than the average (at the time) resulting in lower yields of very healthy grapes that delivered wines with nice balance between alcohol and polyphenols... Read More

The 2020 Rioja Reserva their flagship wine comes from the 300 hectares of estate vineyards. Here Tempranillo is the backbone making up 82% of the blend in the low-yielding vintage of 2019 complemented with 8% Graciano 7% Mazuelo... Read More

The 2021 Las Uvas de la Ira produced and sold before by Dani Landi is now a wine from Vitícola Mentridana under the direction of Curro Bareño who takes over in this cool vintage. It was produced in the same way from six vineyards... Read More