Alvear Pedro Ximenez Anada 2014 (6x37.5cl)
In Bond: €229.00
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Andalucia |
6x37.5cl |
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96 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €229.00 |
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Alvear Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 NV (6x37.5cl)
In Bond: €161.00
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NV |
Alvear Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 NV (6x37.5cl) Wine Advocate (98)The NV Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 is non-vintage, but does have some 1927 material in it. This is totally dark brown/amber with notes of figs, toffee, caramel syrup, molasses and coffee. It is dense, super sweet, intense, rich and an amazingly, unctuously textured, thick beverage to consume slowly and introspectively after a meal. Drink now through 2050, or even longer.
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Andalucia |
6x37.5cl |
1 |
98 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €161.00 |
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Barbier Clos Mogador Priorat Nelin 2017 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €367.00
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2017 |
Barbier Clos Mogador Priorat Nelin 2017 (6x75cl)
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Catalunya |
6x75cl |
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Barbier Clos Mogador Priorat Nelin 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €375.00
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2019 |
Barbier Clos Mogador Priorat Nelin 2019 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Catalunya |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €375.00 |
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Benjamin Romeo Cataluna Macizo 2009 (12x75cl)
In Bond: €258.00
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2009 |
Benjamin Romeo Cataluna Macizo 2009 (12x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Catalunya |
12x75cl |
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In Bond: €258.00 |
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Bodegas Amaren Malvasia 2014 (1x150cl)
In Bond: €105.00
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2014 |
Bodegas Amaren Malvasia 2014 (1x150cl) Tim Atkin MW (96)Malvasía Riojana, or Rojal, is a very rare grape that’s only found in old co-planted field blends as a rule. But here it takes centre stage in a brilliant wine that’s fermented and aged on its lees in concrete eggs. Saline, focused and refined, with jasmine and wet stone aromas, a creamy mid palate and a long, focused, pithy finish. A stunning debut. 2021 – 2026.
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Rioja |
1x150cl |
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96 (TA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €105.00 |
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Cillar Silos Blanco Silos 2020 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €205.00
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2020 |
Cillar Silos Blanco Silos 2020 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Castilla y Leon |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €205.00 |
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Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2016 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €2,020.00
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2016 |
Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2016 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (97)The white from Dominio del Águila is one of the first whites from the Ribera del Duero appellation, which just approved the category in September 2019. It's also one of the finest whites from the region (and from Spain), used by the appellation to present the new category of wines as an example of the aging potential of the style, which at this address was produced in 2012, 2014 and 2015 and until now sold as generic Vino de España. The fourth vintage bottled is this 2016 Blanco, which is insultingly young and backward, with incredible tension, 13% alcohol and a pH of 3.08, which is only achieved in cool vintages, and crafted as the best white Burgundies, as it's produced with the idea of a true vin de garde. This 2016 took almost two years to complete fermentation, because it ferments in oak barrels in a very cold cellar. This is the finest vintage, with citrus notes, hints of smoke and incredible tension and freshness in the palate. This has the tenderness of a baby and should have a slower development than any of the previous vintages. It was hand bottled—unfined and unfiltered after 32 months in barrel—into 4,855 bottles and 80 magnums in June 2019. These are wines that deserve being revisited a few years after their bottling...
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Castilla y Leon |
6x75cl |
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97 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €2,020.00 |
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Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2018 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €770.00
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2018 |
Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2018 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (97)Jorge Monzón and Isabel Rodero's Albillo Mayor is one of Spain's greatest whites. Think of it as a cross between a Jura Vin Jaune and a Viña Tondonia Blanco from Rioja in style. Nutty, salty yet produced without a veil of flor yeast, it's a subtly wooded delight, showing old vine concentration and the leesy, waxy, oxidative complexity that comes from a two-year fermentation without added sulphur.
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Castilla y Leon |
6x75cl |
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97 (TA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €770.00 |
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Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €1,149.39
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2019 |
Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2019 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (98)One of Spain's greatest white wines, produced outside the Ribera del Duero Denominación de Origen for the time being, this is a field blend of Albillo Mayor with 5% of other varieties. Salty, stony and appealingly reductive, with some lovely struck match top notes, it has the concentration of its 100-year-old vines, bread, almond and citrus peel flavours and a chiselled finish. World class.
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Castilla y Leon |
6x75cl |
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98 (TA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €1,149.39 |
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El Paraguas El Paraguas Atlantico 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €721.00
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2019 |
El Paraguas El Paraguas Atlantico 2019 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €721.00 |
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Envinate Palo Blanco 2020 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €344.00
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2020 |
Envinate Palo Blanco 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98)I was blown away by a magnum of the white 2020 Palo Blanco I drank a few days before I tasted it again with its creators. Palo Blanco is the name of a zone in the village of Los Realejos in Tenerife, one of the finest locations for Listán Blanco (Palomino). In 2020 they used the grapes from five plots (they started with only one and 6,600 bottles in 2016), which means they have been able to increase volumes and, thankfully, also quality! The new plot is at 850 meters, so the grapes bring more freshness. These are always the last grapes they pick in Tenerife, even in an early harvest like 2020. The destemmed grapes were pressed and the juice let to settle for 12 to 24 hours and then fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete without temperature control. Sixty-five percent of the wine matured in 2,500-liter oak foudres and the rest in neutral 350-liter barrels with lees. There is a smoky and spicy, flinty touch and a vibrant palate with a spark of acidity that makes the wine very long and tasty. This now plays in the major league. 2020 saw the earliest harvest ever for this wine. 11,000 bottles and 200 magnums were filled in December 2021.
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Canary Islands |
6x75cl |
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98 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €344.00 |
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Fillaboa Rias Baixas Albarino 2020 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €131.00
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2020 |
Fillaboa Rias Baixas Albarino 2020 (6x75cl)
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €131.00 |
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Gomez Cruzado Montes Obarenes 2018 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €401.00
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2018 |
Gomez Cruzado Montes Obarenes 2018 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (96)Named after the range of hills in the cool, north-west corner of Rioja, Gómez Cruzado's top white is a cuvée of Viura and 25% Tempranillo Blanco, Calagraño and Malvasía. Aged in concrete eggs and barrels, it's a leesy, sappy, complex blend with notes of beeswax, vanilla and lemongrass and a salty tang. Wonderfully complex.
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Rioja |
6x75cl |
1 |
96 (TA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €401.00 |
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Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Blanco Reserva 2011 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €840.00
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2011 |
Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Blanco Reserva 2011 (6x75cl)
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Rioja |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €840.00 |
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Marques de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Blanco 1986 (3x75cl)
In Bond: €2,375.00
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Marques de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Blanco 1986 (3x75cl) Wine Advocate (100)I have been terribly excited about this wine since I first learned that (part of) it was still in cement waiting to be bottled in September 2013. I consider the rare white Castillo Ygay one of the greatest white wines ever produced in Spain, and the 1986 Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial is a great addition to the portfolio of the winery--an historic wine that is coming back to life. I did a vertical tasting of many of the old, historic vintages of this wine, and they are included in a separate article in this very same issue. This 1986 had seen the light as a limited early release bottled in 1992 and sold around 1995, and some bottles might still be found in the market. But most of it remained unbottled and was kept at the winery, where it stayed in oak for 21 years, followed by some six years in cement vats until it was bottled. It has 13.5% alcohol, an extremely low pH of 2.98 and 6.75 grams of acidity (tartaric). It has a very subtle nose and it's a bit shy, a little closed at first. It was only bottled one and a half years ago, and it's not crazy to say that the wine is showing extremely young. The wine shows more open the day after, when it has developed some nuances of mushrooms and verbena tea. This is mostly Viura with perhaps a pinch of Malvasía Riojana (aka Alarije). The palate is both powerful and elegant, with superb acidity and great length, with volume and sharpness, with a mineral, umami-driven finish. It fills your mouth, tickles your taste buds and makes you salivate. There is nothing negative about the wine; there is no excess oak, nothing blurry, nothing to improve... perhaps the bottle used! I think this is a perfect wine. It seems to be getting younger and younger with time in the glass; it seems to be getting more focused and sharper, and I have no doubt the wine will evolve and last for a very, very, very long time in bottle. I kept the opened bottle for almost one week and the wine didn't move one inch--no oxidation or any signs of fatigue. Having tasted many other vintages, including the also perfect 1919 (which is still going strong at age 97), I have no doubt we're talking about a white for the next 50 years. Looking at the older vintages, I might even be underestimating its life span. The potential next release could be the 1998 in no less than ten years' time.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Rioja |
3x75cl |
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100 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €2,375.00 |
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Mas Doix Priorat Salix 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €342.00
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2019 |
Mas Doix Priorat Salix 2019 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Catalunya |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €342.00 |
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Oxer Marko 2021 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €115.00
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2021 |
Oxer Marko 2021 (6x75cl)
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Pais Vasco |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €115.00 |
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Oxer Marko Gure Arbasoak 2021 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €172.00
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2021 |
Oxer Marko Gure Arbasoak 2021 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: ~1 week
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Pais Vasco |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €172.00 |
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Pazo Barrantes (Marques Murrieta) Comtesse Albarino 2017 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €434.00
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2017 |
Pazo Barrantes (Marques Murrieta) Comtesse Albarino 2017 (6x75cl)
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €434.00 |
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Pazo Barrantes Gran Vino Albarino 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €323.00
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2019 |
Pazo Barrantes Gran Vino Albarino 2019 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (94)When some are releasing their 2021 wine, Pazo Barrantes took a break and are now releasing their 2019 Gran Vino Albariño, after a hiatus of almost two years. Because they changed almost everything... They have 12 hectares of 35-year-old vineyards divided into eight different plots around the winery in the Val do Salnés plus one hectare they rent from the archbishopric. The soils are degraded and sandy granite and the pruning the traditional "parrón," "emparrado" or pergola at 1.8 to two meters high. The grapes were picked between September 13th and 20th, let to settle and fermented in stainless steel at 10 degrees Celsius for 60 days. The wine was kept with the lees for two months and a further seven months in tank, but 15% of the wine matured in 225-liter acacia barrels. The wine was bottled in June 2020 and was kept in bottle for 16 months. It's 13% alcohol and has a pH of 3.4 and 7.8 grams of acidity (measured in tartaric acid per liter). The wine is extremely balsamic and medicinal, with an explosive nose with notes of white flowers, but the nose changes, as we know. What impressed me was the seamless structure and the harmony on the palate. It's titillating, elegant, detailed and nuanced, with terrific balance. I was gobsmacked! 95,097 bottles and 1,425 magnums produced. All bottles are numbered and in the same elegant bottle as La Comtesse. Obviously, the price has changed.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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94 (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €323.00 |
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Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2011 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €481.00
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2011 |
Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2011 (6x75cl) Peñín 2020 Guide (99)For three years the family winery Pazo Señorans has flirted with being the best white wine of the year, always with its wine Pazo Señorans Selección de Añada, first in its 2007 vintage (Peñín Guide 2015 - 98 points), then with its 2008 (Guía Peñín Peñín 2017 - 98 points) and finally with his 2009 (Peñín Guide 2018 - 98 points). And he did it today with a wine that was a break not only in the Rías Baixas area, but also in the Spanish producing environment. His Selección de Añada wine is a commitment to the aging of Galician whites, a wine capable of withstanding the challenge of time and of gaining expression on this journey. Today the Pontevedra winery has finally achieved this with its superb 2011 vintage, which shows soil, surroundings and, of course, the hand of man through a style that is already its own by acquired rights. This Pazo de Señorans has been an unmitigated love of interest for the tasting team, a wine that recalls the granite soils of its vineyards, where touches of laurel, lees and hydrocarbon are appreciated as the great whites of the world do.
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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99 (PNG) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €481.00 |
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Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2012 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €275.00
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2012 |
Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2012 (6x75cl) Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2012 is the latest released vintage of the wonderful white, and we can rest assured that it is a wine of immense personality. Awarded 98 points from the Peñin Guide, the leading wine magazine in Spain, this sings with fascinating notes of “white fruit, citrus fruit, fine lees, petrol”. It possesses a richly flavourful and elegant palate ending with a lengthy finish.
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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In Bond: €275.00 |
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Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2013 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €343.00
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2013 |
Pazo Senorans Rias Baixas Albarino Seleccion Anada 2013 (6x75cl) Penin Guide 2022 (98)This style of Albariño is defined, aromatic, taught, crisp and original. With aromas of scrubland, fine lees, and those typical to the varietal, it is full of life, flavourful and complex.
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
2 |
98 (PG) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €343.00 |
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Pujanza SJ Anteportalatina 2018 (4x75cl)
In Bond: €270.00
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2018 |
Pujanza SJ Anteportalatina 2018 (4x75cl) Decanter (96)Part of an accomplished range of Riojas from Laguardia producer Pujanza, this 100% Viura is grown on the small 3.5ha limestone vineyard of San Juan de Anteportalatina at 600m. This terroir produces a distinctive and distinguished white, with layered aromas, savoury notes, fresh lemon, preserved lemon, a touch of salinity, and stony minerality. Rioja's answer to white Burgundy: elegant, mineral, toasty, buttery, citrus, with real verve - a seam of focused acidity. Vibrant finish, long and layered with fresh grapefruit, saltiness, toasted nuts. Aged for 12 months in French oak and concrete. Limited production.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Rioja |
4x75cl |
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96 (DC) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €270.00 |
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Pujanza SJ Anteportalatina 2020 (4x75cl)
In Bond: €215.00
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2020 |
Pujanza SJ Anteportalatina 2020 (4x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (95)Carlos San Pedro's impressive Viura hails from a 1.5-hectare parcel close to the winery at 600 metres. Creamy, smooth and comparatively rich, despite its very low pH, subtle beeswax, pear and waxed lemon flavours, nuanced toasty oak and a tangy finish.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 8-10 weeks
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Rioja |
4x75cl |
35 |
95 (TA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €215.00 |
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Rafael Palacios Sorte O Soro 2019 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €1,750.00
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2019 |
Rafael Palacios Sorte O Soro 2019 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98)The single-vineyard Sorte O Soro had not been produced since 2016, and the 2019 Sorte O Soro is the next vintage after that. This plot has always shown additional elegance, freshness and salinity since he started vinifying it in 2004, because of the altitude (710 meters above sea level) and the north exposure to the Bibei Valley, where the old clone is planted on fine granite sand and quartz soils. Like As Sortes, this Sorte also fermented and matured with lees in new 500-liter French oak barrels for eight months. It has 14% alcohol with a pH of 3.12 and higher acidity (at 7.5 grams) than the rest of the 2019s. It feels very harmonious, elegant and nuanced with some creaminess, with notes of wet pollen and yellow flowers. The palate reflects the soil, with vibrant granite and very fine sand and electric quartz (saline), and it's also round and powerful from the clone that is planted in the vineyard. This vineyard is in the process of being organically and biodynamically certified. 2,240 bottles were filled in September 2020.
I tasted the 2019s and 2020s from Rafa Palacios in Valdeorras. For him, these are two very good years. 2019 had a mild and dry winter and a rainy and cold spring that delayed budding, followed by a mild summer with fewer hours of sunshine, which meant a delay in the ripening process. Harvest was more than one month later than usual, and the grapes achieved very slow ripening and full development of aromas and flavors while keeping the acidity. The harvest started in October and finished in November. It's a beautiful, homogeneous vintage with very good wines.
2020 saw a moderately cool and rainy winter and a dry and cold spring that resulted in 20% less bunches than in 2019. The summer was also quite dry but, fortunately, not too hot. Given the low yields, maturation was accelerated, and the harvest began at the beginning of September for Louro and from September 25th for As Sortes. Given the scarce water, the plants had to work harder deep down into the soil, which marked the wines; the silica and quartz from the sandy soils of O Bolo shaped a saline identity and the wines achieved a lot of elegance and balance. It's a more heterogeneous vintage, and the higher-altitude vineyards behaved better. The 2020 O Soro is out of this world.
He gave me a quick preview of the very cold 2021, a vin de garde vintage but a challenging year with a lot of rain. They are in the process of certifying their vineyards (organic and biodynamic), but they have some problems in the vineyards with neighbors who are not organic, so it will probably be faster for O Soro and Sorte Antiga.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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98 (WA) Read Review/Description
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Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2019 (6x150cl)
In Bond: €527.00
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2019 |
Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2019 (6x150cl) Decanter (98)Sampled from a vat, this is one of the best As Sortes I have ever tasted, comparable to the iconic 2011. It's a prodigy of subtleness and elegance. Everything is firmly delicate in this wine. Restrained aromas open up parsimoniously, with a steely structure like a great Burgundy, but with flinty acidity almost like Grosses Gewächs from Rheingau. Despite the fact that the sample was not yet bottled, the wine had no oak influence, just the indication that it had been aged, as top Godello must. Rafael Palacios is refining his work year after year, reaching the magic of the greatest wines. A top wine, and one to keep.
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Galicia |
6x150cl |
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98 (DC) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €527.00 |
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Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2020 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €372.00
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2020 |
Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (95+)As with the other wines, I also tasted the 2020 As Sortes next to the 2019. The vineyards and process were the same, native fermentation in 500-liter French oak barrels, where the wine matured with fine lees for eight months. But 2020 is riper than 2019 (14.4% vs 14%), and it also has a lower pH and higher acidity. Like the Louro, this feels closed, primary and a little reductive at first. It took time in the glass to open up. The vineyards here are able to cushion the effect of the vintage, and the viticulture they have been doing (organic and biodynamic) makes for concentrated wines that are also more closed early on and then need more time in bottle. The palate references a very mineral wine with a powerful mineral strike. It improved tremendously in the glass over the course of a couple of hours. 18,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2021.
Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 4-5 weeks
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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95+ (WA) Read Review/Description
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In Bond: €372.00 |
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Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2021 (6x75cl)
In Bond: €298.00
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2021 |
Rafael Palacios Valdeorras As Sortes 2021 (6x75cl)
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Galicia |
6x75cl |
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