Spanish Wine between $75 and $100

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

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 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

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

After the absence this wine in 2022 because of the hail the 2023 Lousas Parcela Camiño Novo follows the superb 2021 with another "classical" and Atlantic vintage in Ribeira Sacra. This is a field blend of 85% Mencía 12% Alicante... Read More

The 2023 Lousas Parcela Seoane is very primary and undeveloped with some notes of honey and beeswax from a year when the wines show their character in a clearer way than in 2022. It's a cooler more Atlantic vintage with more... Read More

The second vintage of the 2023 Palo Blanco Las Molinas is quite similar to the regular Palo Blanco from the same year: saline sharp and with great purity precision and cleanliness. This matured in a Garbelotto 2500-liter oak foudre.... Read More

The 2023 Táganan Parcela Margalagua resembles the 2021 perhaps with a little more elegance and depth. They have lowered the use of powder sulfur in the vineyards and they select finer lees for the aging of the wines in barrel;... Read More

The nose of the 2021 Nit de Nin Mas d’en Caçador is really different with a savory condition reminiscent of cured sausage (Catalan "fuet" dry sausage) herbal fresh and floral with some notes of meat and blood. It was produced... Read More

The new kid on the block ... It's spicier, with notes of aromatic herbs, but it's a little bit framed by the oak with the core of blood orange and an ethereal side. The palate has abundant, slightly dusty tannins, chalky... Read More

The 2003 Numanthia was fashioned from yields of one ton of fruit per acre (from a clone of Tempranillo that often has the highest polyphenols of any Tempranillo clone). This cuvee is made from 70- to 100-year-old vines planted... Read More

I think the 2014 Albariño Selección de Añada could be the finest vintage of this characterful long-aging Albariño from a year with a more moderate 13% alcohol and very high acidity (and low pH) that make the wine fresher and... Read More