Our favourite premium pourer in ace form. It really is a text-book example of Ribera Tempranillo - dark cherry, lashings of licorice and spice, nice meaty-gamey bits, fine tannins. Generous, but as pretty and blue-floral as it is expressive. The Spanish Acquisition.
Up in the Northern hill-slopes of the valley, the Aragon family have a couple of truly special patches of very gnarled old Tempranillo vines. Wines of elegance and concentration, they’re savoury with great earthy perfumes.
High class young Tempranillo, otherwise known as a Joven. Textbook varietal/regional character, and a very good elegant drink. Very bloody and delicious, it’s both gamey and very smooth, concentrated and elegant.