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RIOJA
Bodegas
Paternina
Founded in 1896, Bodega Paternina is based in Haro, the epicentre of the Rioja
wine trade.
The Monte Haro Joven is soft and elegant with good red fruit flavours.
2008
Monte Haro Tinto
Joven
Price: £5.99
Bin No. SP02
Bodegas Navajas
The wines
of Antonio Navajas go from strength
to strength. He blends a
little of his oak-aged wine in
with his Tinto to give it more body to
balance the fruit.
We have been shipping his Crianza for over ten years: this
wine offers sensational rich plummy-oak flavours at a
very reasonable price.
2008 Cruz del Castillo
Tinto
Price: £6.49
Bin No. SP08
2008
Bodegas Navajas *
Tinto
Price: £6.49
SP18
2007
Bodegas Navajas *
Crianza
Price: £7.99
SP21
2004
Bodegas Navajas
Reserva
Price: £9.99
SP22
A
Crianza - aged in oak - that develops a huge, apricot
and butterscotch
flavours that you’ll either love or hate.
Marqués de Murrieta
A superb range of Riojas from the
great Marqués de Murrieta
300 hectare Ygay estate at Logrono.The
Marquès de Murrieta Reserva
is benchmark Rioja that has been aged in American oak for over 20 months –
perfect example of modern-style Rioja, and the classic Castillo Ygay Gran
Reserva
has fabulous complexity having spent 40 months in American oak.
2004/05
Marqués de Murrieta Ygay
Reserva
Price: £12.98
Bin No. SP29
2004/05
Marqués de Murrieta Ygay
Reserva Magnum
Price: £29.95
Bin No. SP28
2001
Castillo Ygay
Gran Reserva
Especial
Price: £28.95
Bin No. SP15
1998
Castillo Ygay Magnum
Gran Reserva
Especial
Price: £69.95
Bin No. SP151
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.
2002
Marqués de Murrieta 'Capellania'
Reserva
Price: £12.98
Bin No. SP62
Cune
Three
great Riojas: Vina Real Reserva,
the ultimate expression
of Rioja Alaves; Contino Reserva,
a single estate that has been producing
benchmark Rioja since
its creation in 1973; and Imperial Gran Reserva a
superb
Rioja Alta made from 85% Tempranillo that is mature but will age for
years.
2001
Vina
Real
Reserva
Price: £15.95
Bin No. SP09
2005
Contino
Reserva
Price: £19.95
Bin No. SP25
1998
Imperial
Gran
Reserva
Price: £24.95
Bin No. SP26
Ribera del Duero and Toro
The Alion Reserva
and
Vega Sicilia
Unico
are indisputably
two 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. Vega Unico is
legendary it will out live you and me..
2005
Carramimbre Tinto
Ribero del Douro
Price: £9.99
Bin No. SP10
2005
Alion
Reserva Vega
Sicilia
Price: £43.95
Bin No. SP05
1999
Valbuena
Vega Sicilia
Price: £59.95
Bin No. SP30
1998
Vega Sicilia Unico
Vega
Sicilia
Price: £159.95
Bin No. SP40
Catalunya - Castillo Peralada
Some
of our favourite wines on the list come from
Castillo
Perelada
in the
Costa Brava. Tthe superb Castillo Perelada Roc 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 3 Fincas Crianza and 5 Fincas Reserva are big reserve wines
that have spent
18 months in oak and have 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. The palate is
magnificent. Lovely!’
2005
Castillo Peralada Roc
Crianza
Price: £6.99
Bin No. SP13
2007
Castillo Peralada
3 Fincas
Crianza
Price: £8.99
Bin No.
SP141
2005
Castillo Peralada
5 Fincas
Reserva
Price: £12.99
Bin No.
SP142
2005/06
Castillo Peralada
Finca Malaveina
Price: £20.98
Bin No. SP07
2002
Castillo Peralada
Gran Claustro
Price: £39.95
Bin No.
SP19
The Roc Blanco a stunning blend of X-arello and Muscat,
producing a wine with
a fine acidity combined with intense apomatics.
2008
Castillo
Perelada Roc
Blanco
Price: £6.99
Bin No.
SP74
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.
2002
Solanes
Priorat
Price: £16.99
Bin No. SP17
2000
Cims de Porrera
Classic
Price: £49.95
Bin No. SP177
Rest of Spain
Castell del Remei
Gottim Bru is a superb Merlot/Tempranillo
blend from
the little known Costers del Segre DO in south-east Spain.
Vega
Sicilia’s Pintia from
Toro is powerful and intense with dark plum fruit.
2003
Castell del Remei Gottim Bru
Costers
del Segre
Price: £8.98
Bin No. SP01
2005
Pintia
Toro - Vega Sicillia
Price: £29.95
Bin No. SP32
2006
Pintia
Toro - Vega Sicillia
Price: £34.95
Bin No. SP
The
Pazo de Barrantes Albarino is owned by the Creixell family of Marques de Murrieta, this
wine is
wonderfully aromatic with exotic fruit overlays
2008
Pazo De Barrantes Albarino
Rias Baixas
Price: £12.98
Bin No. SP63
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