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RIOJA
Bodegas
Paternina - Haro
Founded in 1896, Bodega Paternina is based in Haro, the epicentre of the Rioja
wine trade. The Monte Haro is soft and
elegant with good red fruit flavours and now has a screw cap. The Banda
Dorada white has crisp citrus fruit. Banda Azul and Banda Roja
are both classics that have benefitted hugely from the bodegas massive investment in new oak over the past decade.
Visit their
website
Monte Haro Tinto
Joven
Price: £7.39
Bin No. SP02
Banda
Azul Crianza
Price: £8.99
Bin No. SP04
Banda
Azul Roja
Reserva
Price: £11.50
Bin No. SP39
Bodegas Paternina Gran Reserva
Price: £15.50
Bin No. SP42
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Bodegas Navajas - Navarette
The
wines of Antonio Navajas just go from strength to strength. New on the list is
his crisp, citrus fruit dominated Blanco made from the Viura grape. He blends
oak-aged wine in with his Tinto to give it more body to balance the fruit. We
started shipping his Crianza over twenty-five years ago now and it is benchmark
Rioja with typical vanilla oak underpinning layers of rich damson fruit. The
excellent Reserva, aged in oak for three years, is another level up and we now
ship his Gran Reserva if you want a real treat.
Visit their
website
Bodegas Navajas
Blanco
Price: £7.99
Bin No.SP18
Bodegas Navajas
Crianza
Price: £9.99 Bin
No.SP21
Bodegas Navajas
Reserva
Price: £12.99 Bin
No.SP22
Bodegas Navajas Gran Reserva
Price: £22.50
Bin No.SP24
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Marqués de Murrieta
A superb range of Riojas from the great Marqués de Murrieta’s 300 hectareYgay
estate at Logrono.
The Marqués de Murrieta Reserva is benchmark Rioja that has been
aged in
American oak for over 20 months – a perfect
example of modern-style Rioja, and the classic Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva has fabulous complexity having spent
40 months in American oak. For a real treat, try the Dalmau Reserva,
their flagship, modern-style reserva that has 10% wine from 90 year old Cabernet
Sauvignon added into the blend, creating a wine with
great intensity of black fruit.The Pazo de Barrantes Albarino is owned by the Creixell family of Marqués
de Murrieta and is a wine that has
wonderfully aromatic and exotic fruit overlays.
See their
website
2014 Marqués de Murrieta Ygay
Reserva
Price: £17.99
Bin No. SP29
2014 Marqués de Murrieta Ygay
Reserva Magnum
Price: £43.50
Bin No. SP28
2007/11
Marqués de Murrieta Ygay Gran
Reserva
Price: £43.50
Bin No. SP05
2009 Marqués de Murrieta
Reserva
Double Magnum
Price: £147.50
Bin No. SP26
2016
Dalmau
Reserva
Price: £74.50
Bin No. SP03
2009
Castillo Ygay
Gran Reserva
Especial
Price: £94.95
Bin No. SP01
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The Capellania Reserva is typical rich white Rioja, made from a blend of
Viura, Malvasia & Garnacha, but less heavily oaked than it was in the past.
White
Pazo
de Barrantes Albarino
Rias Baixas
Price: £16.99
Bin No. SP63
Marqués de Murrieta 'Capellania'
Reserva
Price: £21.50
Bin No. SP62
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Altos de Rioja - Rioja Alvesa
Altos de
Rioja
is a boutique winery in the heart of the best terroir of Rioja Alvesa.
Every grape comes from old vines in the high altitude villages of Laguardia,
Elvillar and
Kripan. Aged in 80% French and 20% American oak, the wines have superb
complexity and structured elegance.
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website
Altos de Rioja Blanco
Price: £11.95
Bin No. SP60
Altos de Rioja Crianza
Price: £13.98
Bin No. SP12
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Castilla Y Leon:
Ribera del Duero and Rueda
The MoMo white from
Rueda is a delicious blend of Verdejo and Viura with lovely zesty, citric freshness. The Alion Reserva
is indisputably one of Spain’s finest red wines, combining elegance, grip and
fabulous damson-black fruit. Alion comes from Vega’s neighbouring estate and is
100% Tempranillo.The Bodega Gotica white from Rueda is a delicious Verdejo with
lovely zesty, citric freshness and its red
counterpart Gotica ‘old vine’ Tempranillo has a superb purity of black cherry
fruit.
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website
Momo - Verdejo/Viura
Rueda
Price: £8.99
Bin No. SP66
Bodega Gotica Verdejo
Price: £8.99
Bin No. SP61
Bodega Gotica Old Vine Tempranillo
Castilla Y Leon
Price: £8.99
Bin No. SP20
Momo Tinta del Pais Ribera del Duero
Price: £14.50
Bin No. SP09
2012
Alion
Reserva Vega
Sicilia
Price: £49.95
Bin No. SP11
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Catalunya - Castillo Peralada
Some of our favourite wines on the list come from Castillo Perelada in the Costa
Brava. The superb Castillo Perelada 3 Fincas Crianza
is a blend of Garnacha, Carinena and Tempranillo that has spent 12 months in
American and French barriques giving it the classic
vanilla flavours that balance the forest fruits. The 5 Fincas Reserva is
a big reserve wine that has spent 18 months in oak and has
broad sweet tannins and a superlative depth of plum and damson fruit. The superb
Gran Claustro – their flagship blend of Cabernet,
Merlot, Carignena and Garnacha – was rated top Spanish red in Wine Magazine.
Their taster noted: ‘Deep, dark and richly fruited with a gorgeous aroma.’
Have a look at their
website
Castillo Peralada
3 Fincas
Crianza
Price: £10.99
Bin No. SP141
Castillo Peralada
5 Fincas Reserva
Price: £14.99
Bin No. SP142
Castillo
Peralada
Finca Malaveina
Price: £21.95
Bin No. SP07
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Priorat - Red
The wines from Perelada’s Priorat Estate – Spain’s most fashionable wine region
- are unreconstructed blockbusters:
huge structure, heady plum fruit, hoofing alcohol content.
Visit their
website
2012/13 Vi de Vila Porrera Priorat
Price: £19.99
Bin No. SP17
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Navarra
The
Guelbenzu family are probably the greatest makers of wine in the Navarra region.
The Azul is made
from the Tempranillo grape and aged for 9 months in French and American oak whereas the stunning Evo
is a blockbuster red that is made predominantly
from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape after 12 months aging in French oak barriques.
Guelbenzu
Azul
Price: £11.50
Bin No. SP47
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Rest of Spain
Red
Castillo La Paz Tempranillo is an award-winning rich
red from one of La Mancha’s top wineries. Two superb wines on the list Calandria Prieto Picudo
(not a grape that I had ever heard of!) comes from the north-east of Spain and has an elegance and soft
red fruit; Set Tota La Vida is an astonishing red packed with dark cherry
fruit and a hint of mocha made from Garnacha, Syrah
and Mazuelo (Carignan) in the fabled Monsant region to the south of Priorat in
Catalonia.
2014 Castillo
la Paz ‘old vine’ Tempranillo La Mancha
Price: £7.39
Bin No. SP001
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website
Calandria Preieto Pucudo
Tierra
de Leon
Price: £12.99
Bin No. SP14
Estones 'Set Tota la Vida'
Monsant
Price: £18.99
Bin No. SPO06
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