Carro Tinto 2014 Winemaker Notes

Carro is a ridiculous value in a full-bodied, complex, rich and savory dry red wine. Dense ruby/purple with notes of blackberry and blueberry fruit, licorice and camphor, the wine is totally unoaked and naked. This is a beauty of purity and richness and just goes to show what one can buy if careful with researching importers. Drink it over the next several years.

This simple, unpretentious, easy-to-drink and juicy red will pair well with most any flavorful, casual dishes summer or otherwise you’re likely to see it on the backyard deck, at the beach, or at a picnic. Grilled cheddar burgers with bacon, BBQ brisket or pulled pork and pressed Cajun chicken sandwiches all fit the bill.

90 Points Critical Acclaimed by The Wine Advocate

The 2014 Carro is a ridiculous value in a full-bodied, complex, rich and savory dry red wine. Dense ruby/purple with notes of blackberry and blueberry fruit, licorice and camphor, the wine is totally unoaked and naked. This is a beauty of purity and richness and just goes to show what one can buy if careful with researching importers. Drink it over the next several years.

Finca Sandoval Salia Manchuela 2011 Winemaker Notes

Salia is an exciting new wine from Finca Sandoval, made from Syrah, Garnacha Tintorera and Garnacha in the DO Manchuela. It is rare to find a value wine made in such a meticulous way: harvesting by hand, fermentation in small open top vats, basket press, and aging in barrique and barrels of 1 to 3 years old.

90 Points Critical Acclaimed by The Wine Advocate

Salia was born as a more accessible version of the Finca Sandoval, a blend with more Garnacha and Garnacha Tintorera, still with a majority of Syrah, and in recent years it adds a small percentage of the local Moravia Agria (5% in this 2011), a grape that has high acidity and provides good freshness in blends, especially in warm years like 2011. As all the wines here, it’s fermented in open-top fiberglass vats with indigenous yeasts, pressed in a vertical basket press, aged for 11 months in used 300-liter oak barrels and bottled with low levels of sulfur. It is quite elegant, with aromas of blueberries, subtle black olives and smoked bacon and plenty of balsamic notes showing good balance. The medium to full-bodied palate is a little closed, has round tannins framing the juicy and tasty flavors. Still very young and undeveloped, it shows good balance and fresh acidity; it is primary but already drinkable. With time in the glass the meatiness of the Syrah dominates.

Bodegas Peique Ramon Valle 2012 Winemaker Notes

Covered ripe sweet-cherry color, with a purple, clean and shiny hue. A mixture of red and black fruit, spices (black pepper, cinnamon), chocolate, young toasty wood and a mineral balsamic background on the nose. Full, fleshy, velvety, very good structure without being astringent, sweet tannins, balanced glyceric fruit. Balsamic finish with licorice notes and a sweet bitterness in the finish.

90 Points Critical Acclaimed by Decanter

Definitely a Mencía, with that love-it-or-hate-it, telltale acid edge. From the hill town of Valtuille. Full of smoke and dusky flowers, with a strong grip of tannin from seven months’ ageing in French, Russian and American oak. A polyglot with plenty of bold character.

A Portela Mencia 2014 Winemaker Notes

Dark purple. Powerful aromas of candied blackberry, blueberry and licorice, complicated by violet and cracked pepper. Lush, intensely flavored and smooth, offering spicy dark berry and cherry compote flavors enlivened by a subtle floral nuance. Finishes sappy and long, with resonating spiciness, a hint of licorice and chewy tannins.

91 Points Critical Acclaimed by James Suckling

A pure mencía that exhibits aromas reminiscent of dried flowers, sliced strawberries and some burnt oranges to boot. The palate is loaded with upfront fruit, plenty of fine tannins, a good backbone of acidity and a clean finish. Unoaked and made from 30-year-old, pure mencia.

Alvarez de Toledo Mencia Roble 2013 Winemaker Notes

Mencia Roble stands out because of its strong fruity character bringing out all the characteristics of the Mencia grape variety. The time it spent in oak barrels accentuates these qualities by providing subtlety, elegance and complexity. On the palate, the wine is silky, fruity, with persistence and great kindness.

90 Points Critical Acclaimed  by Wine Enthusiast

Ripe plum and violet aromas carry a slight note of prune. A beefy palate shows hard tannins but nothing too tough that food can’t tame. Blackened, roasted blackberry and blueberry flavors finish with charred, meaty intensity.

Mustiguillo Atance Bobal 2015 Winemaker Notes

Organic viticulture and hand picked grapes from bush vines in and around Requena, specifically the Casa Segura estate vineyards with well drained, sandy soils.

Blend: 85% Bobal, 15% Tempranillo

90 Points Critical Acclaimed The Wine Advocate

The 2015 ATANCE is sourced from the Casa Segura estate vineyards, pure organically-farmed Bobal on limestone soils at 800 meters altitude. The wine fermented in stainless steel, and malolactic was in oak vat where the wine matured for four months before bottling. This is very expressive, clean and focused, nicely balanced, with no apparent oak, with vibrant fruit, nice focus, high pitched fruit and a thin layer of spices. It has a fine texture with some tannins and a mineral sensation, very tasty, balanced and with a clean finish. It opens up nicely with time in the glass, with some floral notes. This represents great value.

Bobal de San Juan Tinto 2011 Winemaker Notes

Red Garnet middle layer and purple trim. Nose of intense fragrance of red fruits with predominance of strawberry and floral notes of violets followed by spicy notes, highlighting black pepper and licorice. The palate is elegant with fresh input and prevalence of pepper on background of ripe fruit, strawberry and cherry. Balance between crisp acidity and a firm but well polished tannins confer friendly and remarkable length and depth.

90 Points Critical Acclaimed by The Wine Advocate

The 2011 Bobal deSanjuan (red) was harvested from September 27, picked from organically grown vines. The nose is well defined with pressed flowers, crushed stone and a touch of balsamic. The palate is fresh and natural with good acidity, hints of mulberry and briary fruit with a very cool, Rhone-like finish that is pure and focused. This is a bright, breezy Bobal that is very well made.

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