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Frontonio Microcósmico Garnacha 2024
$19.98QuickviewRP9393 Points! The red 2024 Microcósmico Garnacha is a clear step up from the Botijo from this same year. It is more serious, with more tension and more elegant and polished tannins, a subtler and more harmonious wine with citrus and floral characteristics. It's still quite primary but has complexity, depth and a mineral feeling, the texture on the palate. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Bodega Mustiguillo Mestizaje Blanco 2024
$16.98QuickviewRP92+92+ Points! The white 2024 Mestizaje Blanco was produced with a blend of 40% Merseguera, 20% Viognier, 18% Malvasía, 14% Xarello and 8% Macabeo, but it feels like it was made with rocks, because the wine is so stony and mineral and lacks fruit. It really feels like liquid rocks, though it does have some herbal and floral notes. It fermented and matured in stainless steel and concrete with lees. It has 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.41 and 5.44 grams of acidity, coming through as balanced and fresh. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Viñas del Cenit Clarete de Castilla y León Field Blend Tradition 2024
$19.98QuickviewHURRY, ONLY 12 LEFT!We put this one in the 'Rosé' seciton though some folks think of it as a 'chillable red'. Regardless, this stuff is TASTY. Field Blend Tradición comes from organic century-old vineyards, the average vine age is 80 to 100 years. These vineyards sit in clay soils at an altitude of 800 meters. The region has a continental climate with very cold winters and hot summers, an ideal environment for producing wine with depth and complexity.
The blend is approximately 65% Tempranillo; 30% white varieties as Dona Blanca, Palomino or Godello, 5% Garnacha and Garnacha Tintorera. Grapes are hand-harvested and then placed in a press as whole bunches without destemming. They are then treaded for five days until spontaneous fermentation occurs. At this moment, the grapes are pressed and transferred to used French barrels for alcoholic fermentation. Aged for 6 months prior to release.
Very complex nose dominated by raspberries, white fruit, and grass aromas. In the mouth, it is electric, fresh, and highly complex.
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Forjas del Salnés Albariño Leirana Finca Genoveva 2024
$69.98QuickviewJS9999 Points! Aromas of brine, green olives and flowers. This has distinct linearity and acidity and expressive floral and stone fruit flavors. Fruity, with vibrancy and balance. Drink now. - JamesSuckling.com
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Atalaya Almansa Laya 2024
$9.98QuickviewRP9191 Points! The young entry-level 2024 Laya was produced with 70% Garnacha Tintorera and 30% Monastrell from dry-farmed 30-year-old vines on limestone and stony soils. It fermented in 20,000-liter open-top stainless steel vats with neutral yeasts and matured for four months in used French oak barrels, where it also underwent malolactic. It's heady, with notes of very ripe dark berries and is young and primary, fruit-driven, easy to drink and juicy, with velvety tannins, 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.76 and 5.4 grams of acidity. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Rafael Palacios Godello Louro do Bolo 2024
$26.98Out of StockQuickviewJD93JS93VM93RP93Out of stock93 Points! The youngest of the portfolio is the 2024 Louro, which has a balsamic, herbal and faintly medicinal nose (it does smell a little of bay leaf, which is what "louro" means in the Galician language!), quite aromatic. It fermented in 3,500-liter oak foudres, where the wine matured with the lees for four months. It doesn't lack ripeness; it comes in at 14% alcohol but retains good freshness and acidity. It's approachable and has a tender texture. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
93 Points! The 2024 Godello Louro do Bolo from Valdeorras is nuanced, with hay, anise, acacia and a hint of reduction layered over barrel influence. Dry and intense, it balances richness with vibrant acidity, enhancing the variety’s delicacy without losing intensity.- Joaquín Hidalgo, Vinous
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93 Points! A second wine made to be more accessible, translating as the “blonde” of the village, 2024 Louro Do Bolo is an outstanding village Godello from parcels through all the region planted in sandy and granitic soils. Medium-bodied, it has tremendous complexity and sophistication alongside a purity of citrus-driven fruit and fennel, with supportive acidity and enduring freshness. Fermentation is in French oak foudres, followed by aging on the fine lees for additional months. - Virginie Boone, jebdunnuck.com
93 Points! The nose is vibrant, revealing limes, grapefruit and a zesty, saline edge. The palate is linear and well composed, showing precision and freshness. Aged four months in stainless steel. From organically grown grapes. - JamesSuckling.com -
Acios da Xesteiriña Albariño Rias Baixas Do Biolo 2024
$39.98QuickviewHURRY, ONLY 12 LEFT!New superstar Albariño from a single vineyard just west of Portonovo, two kilometers from the Atlantic. Harvested from medium-aged vines in Castrelo (Cambados) in the Val do Salnés ~2 km from the Atlantic. Granite & granodiorite bedrock and gravelly/sandy topsoil on a mild slope.
Learn MoreNatural fermentation (max 24°C) and aging 8 months in 60% old 225- and 500-liter old French oak and 40% steel. Sulfites added just prior to bottling. No fining. No filtration.
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Pedro Mendez Vino Branco (Albariño) 2024
$34.98QuickviewHURRY, ONLY 11 LEFT!100% Albariño harvested from an average of 65-year-old vines (2024) in the Salnés Valley’s Meaño area. It’s on flat surface of granite bedrock and topsoil between 10 m- 130 meters of altitude.
Learn More“Pedro Mendez” is naturally fermented at 18°C for 1 month and aged on lees for 7 months in 50% steel, 25% old barrels and 25% foudre with some lots passing through malolactic fermentation. It is filtered but not fined.
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Alvaro Palacios Priorat Camins del Priorat 2024
$26.98QuickviewJS91RP9191 Points! The bottled 2024 Camins del Priorat is a regional blend produced with a slightly different blend each year, depending on the character of the year. In the less warm 2024, the blend was 40% Garnacha, 20% Cariñena, 20% Syrah (much higher in Syrah), 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot (lower in the Bordeaux varieties), and the rest is a blend of Garnacha Blanca, Picapoll Blanc and Pedro Ximenez from 90 plots in nine villages from Priorat. The idea is to remove the French varieties in 2026. It fermented with part of full clusters and indigenous yeasts in stainless steel, oak and concrete, with 28 days of maceration, and matured in barriques and oak vats for eight months. It has a nose of ripe berry fruit, herbs and spices, with hints of honey and pollen. It develops notes of balsamic and dry hay with time in the glass. This is a little more international; it's the least Priorat of the portfolio. It has 14.1% alcohol, a pH of 3.52 and 5.12 grams of acidity. It's juicy and velvety, with very fine tannins and a sleek texture. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Aseginolaza & Leunda Viura Txuria 2024
$39.98QuickviewRP94+94+ Points! The very young and pale white 2024 Txuria has a serious and stony nose. It was produced with grapes from small dry-farmed plots in different locations—Dicastillo (490 meters above sea level) and Andosilla (395 meters above sea level) in Navarra and Ábalos (550 meters above sea level) in Rioja—on sandy and silty soils with clay and limestone. It fermented in stainless steel without malolactic and was kept with the lees, 50% in stainless steel and the rest in used 400-liter French oak barrels. It has great purity, elegance, focus, clarity and balance. It comes in at a moderate 12.5% alcohol, with surprising freshness (pH 3.09) and high acidity (6.7 grams). This is stunning...- Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Bodega Cerrón - Stratum Wines Jumilla Monastrell Matas Altas 2024
$26.98QuickviewRP94+94+ Points! The red 2024 Matas Altas Tinto is a pure Monastrell from different old vineyards (the same ones used for the 2023), the youngest of which dates from 1967, all ungrafted and dry farmed in their village Fuente-Álamo and planted with field blends, mostly Monastrell but with other varieties, on limestone soils with different textures: marl, sand and gravel. It fermented with 10% full clusters—the same for all the reds from this vintage—and indigenous yeasts. It's the youngest of the reds and has a clean, perfumed and elegant nose, not really fruity, more austere/stony but still the gentler of the reds. They want to pick the grapes when they are ripe to give them time to develop aromas and flavors. Here, they also want to expand the élevage to 18 months, but in 2024, it was only one winter, in 8,000-liter oak foudres and some barrels. It's fine-boned and balanced, with abundant, chalky tannins, and it's more powerful than the 2023. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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Pago de los Capellanes Ribera del Duero Joven 2024
$24.98QuickviewGrapes from vineyards with an average age of 25 years selected in the towns of Pedrosa de Duero, La Horra and Gumiel del Mercado. Tempranillo vines in clay limestone soils, poor in organic matter and of very low fertility. >5 months ageing in 300-litre French oak barrels. Learn More -
Viña Elena Jumilla Monastrell Paraje Marin 2024
$18.98Quickview93 Points, Tim Atkin's Wine Value of the Year! Wild and floral, with notes of rose petal, tarragon, and spring meadow herbs, this 100% Monastrell from Jumilla’s Valle Estrecho shows bright grip and chalky tannins. Aged seven months in old concrete tanks from the 1960s, it’s textured, vibrant, and deeply rooted in the fruit character of Monastrell and the stony, calcareous soils. It finishes with a bright lemon peel twist. - Tim Atkin
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Artuke Rioja 2024
$13.98Out of StockQuickviewRP92Out of stock92 Points! The eponymous 2024 Artuke is a juicy and tasty carbonic maceration red, a modern rendition of the classical "cosechero" wines. It is perfumed, aromatic and heady, with aromas of bubble gum and flowers and a velvety palate with almost unnoticeable tannins. It's a young and unoaked Tempranillo with some 5% white Viura grapes from the village of Baños de Ebro and was kept in concrete until it was bottled...This is a bargain to buy by the truckload and drink unashamedly. - Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com
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