The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was...

The 2021 Selección Especial, is always their most gastronomical red, produced with a blend of the four traditional varieties from Rioja—Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Mazuelo and Graciano. The grapes fermented in oak vats...

A full-bodied, ripe and delicious red with firm, lightly chewy tannins. Lots of cherries, dried flowers, coconut and rosemary. Lavender and white roses, too. Firm and very well structured. Tight and fresh at the end...

My favorite of all the old sweet PXs I tasted this time was the perfumed and showy 1964 Don PX Convento Selección, which still has the wooden label, but it has also been modernized and made easier to read. It is denser...

Aged five years in oak and another five in bottle, the 2016 Unico is made from a blend of estate parcels, the blend decided after one year in barrel. The producer believes that vintages that end in the number 6 tend to be...

The 2021 Torre Muga is a big baby, still developing, remarkable in its wafty layers of 90% Tempranillo and complements of Mazuelo and Graciano. Gentle extraction is the key, the grapes coming from small plots of...

The 2024 Godello from Valdeorras spent six months on lees in French oak puncheons and demi-muids. It begins with acacia, linden blossom and pear, showing pure, direct expression. Intense, with good freshness and weight...

This vintage of Telmo Rodríguez flagship single-vineyard Rioja stands out for its incredible purity of fruit and remarkably well-built structure, anchored by gossamer tannins, vivid yet soft acidity and poised minerality...

If someone told you they kept a wine for 84 years in barrel before bottling, you'd think they are nuts, right? Well, that's what the folks at Toro Albalá in Aguilar de la Frontera - in the province of Cordoba, part of the...

Beautiful transparency here with fresh flowers, green tobacco, pine needles, crushed stones and sandalwood. Dark fruits in the center. Full-bodied with a wonderful balance of fruit and fine tannins as well as mineral...

A blend of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine has aromas of black cherry, dark chocolate and violet candy. Flavors of blackberry, Mission fig, mint tea, anise and lavender are intertwined with velvety tannins...

This shows a wonderfully complex nose of dried herbs and wild berries. The medium- to full-bodied palate is elegant and bright, with focused, precise tannins and incisive energy. There’s a sense of overall balance, with...

The darkest of the reds, the 2020 Dos Dedos de Frente is a ripe and powerful Syrah. It's showy, perfumed and heady, hedonistic and supple, with less oak than in previous years. It comes from grapes from a supplier working...

Lastly, the 2020 Torre Muga just about jumps out of the glass with its complex red and black fruits, savory flowers, tobacco, lead pencil shavings, and graphite-like aromatics. Plush, full-bodied, concentrated, and...

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...

Still youthful in expression, the 2015 Gran Reserva El Puntido opens with red fruit and fresh plum alongside balsamic hints, fine oak and touches of thyme and gentle camphor. Dry and expansive on the palate, it shows...

A little reserved at this early stage, you can feel the hew and heft of the tannins keeping everything in check. There is a sense of precision and crafted architecture, concentrated but with the lightest of touches...

This is a blend of the concentrated and structured 2011, 2013 and 2014 vintages. The wine displays impeccable tannins, complexity and length, feeling remarkably complete due to its aging. Expect notes of blackberries...

One of Spain’s best-known and beloved wines, this vintage, the 2015 Unico, like always, saw five years of aging in barrel and vat and another five years in bottle. It was bottled in May 2021. Blending 96% Tempranillo and...

A field blend of 11 parcels, mostly Tinto Fino with Garnacha and Albillo Mayor, the 2024 is fresh from the rains of the year, with more acidity than the previous vintage. Terroir and varietal-driven, it’s not masked by...

The 2023 Godello Tormenta was sourced from calcareous soils in San Juan de la Mata, Bierzo and aged in barrels and amphorae for two years. The nose is reserved, with floral hints and subtle pear, followed by a touch of...

From the Pontigos vineyard in Fitero, Navarra, the 2024 Garnacha Tinta Señora de las Alturas is expressive and layered on the nose: pomegranate and violet gradually reveal blood orange, rose petals and a faint reductive...

Very fresh fruit with blue plums, cherries, mineral, iodine and flowers. Really precise tannins on the medium- to full-bodied palate. Long, pristine and minerally in the finish. A field blend of tempranillo, viura...

The 2014 Único was produced with grapes from 40 hectares of vines selected from the 210 hectares the winery has. The grapes were picked between September 20th and October 3rd, and the blend was 94% Tinto Fino and 6%...

The 2020 Paixar is the one wine from the portfolio that is completely different from the others and comes from high-altitude vineyards in the zone of Dragonte on slate soils. In 2020 and 2021 they used the whole field...

This bright-red-colored wine offers a bouquet of dark and red berries, anise seed and milk chocolate. It is juicy on entry, with bold cherry and blackberry flavors accompanied by glossy tannins and notes of mocha, caramel...

Tempranillo is co-fermented in the 2022 Tinto Vinas Viejas Picaro del Aguila with Albillo, Garnacha, and Bobal, the grapes specifically sourced for this wine from gravelly sites. Whole-cluster fermented in native yeasts...

The 2023 Cobrana is Mencía sourced from the village of Cobrana, Bierzo. This aged in a mix of amphora and barrel. Fermented with 100% stems, it opens with notes of herbs and underbrush, accented by orange and flowers...

This has a beautiful nose of blood oranges and wild berries with a saline note. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, precise and linear, with red fruit lifted by vibrant acidity and chalky tannins that bring harmony...

A red with plenty of blackberry, chocolate, toasted-oak, cedar and hazelnut aromas that follow through to a full body with firm, velvety tannins that are driven and deep. Finishes with black fruit and lots of hazelnut...