98 DE / 96 JS / 95 WA / 95 JA Simply, unique. It needs a lot of aeration before tasting, otherwise it can show some rusticity due to some reduction. After one hour, the wines opens up in the most delicate array of aromas,...
97 DE / 96 WA / 95 JS / 94 WS Dark in colour but not opaque. There’s exciting freshness on the nose, with no excessively ripe fruit or overt oak getting in the way. A rounded, spherical, mouth-filling wine, but...
96-98 WA / 96 JS / 95 WS / 17+ JR#46 James Suckling's Top 100 Spanish Wines of 2023 The more backward of the 2021s was the 2021 Finca Dofí, which was very primary and smelled almost like the fermentation...
94 JS / 94 WA / 92 DE Aromas of blackberries and crushed stones with some black licorice and violets, following through to a medium body with a solid core of fruit and such attractive fruit and fine tannins at the finish...
94 WA The 2020 Arroyo del Tórtolas is from a plot they consider wilder than the one for the single-vineyard bottlings. It's a north-facing slope, and the grapes ripen slowly. In 2020, this fermented with 80% full...
94+ WA / 93 VM There is more complete ripeness in the 2021 Arroyo del Tórtolas, which shows a darker hue than the 2020 I tasted next to it. It has more clout, full development of aromas and flavors and 15% alcohol,...
Viña Bonita is an 80 year old vineyard on the top of the hill of the property at 700 m. Its soil is a thin layer of compacted granite; cultivators frequently scratch the bedrock. The parcel covers 2.8 hectares, and...
97 WA The 2021 Garnacha de Viña Bonita is pure Garnacha from a plot of very old vines planted in 1929 on very shallow and compact granite soils at 735 meters in altitude with north-facing exposure. It is always...
95 DE / 92 JS / 91 WS The 72ha Viña Lanciano vineyard sits in a privileged location, in a curve in the Ebro river. The vines dig deep to find nutrients on this pebble-strewn former riverbed. Grapes for this...
95 DE / 92 VM Bodegas Burgo Viejo is the property of six farming families and comprises more than 200ha of vineyards in the Rioja Oriental region, from where the more full-bodied styles of Rioja are produced (see...
97+ WA / 95 VM Approximately 300 cases produced only in the finest vintages from the Raul Perez Family The floral 2018 Valtuille Cepas Centenarias is the next vintage after the 2015, as no 2016 or 2017 could be produced...
96+ WA / 95 VM Approximately 142 cases produced only in the finest vintages from the Raul Perez Family The 2018 Valtuille El Rapolao, like the rest of the single-vineyard wines, has not been bottled separately...
100 WA The still young and primary 2020 Clos Erasmus feels very floral and ethereal (within Priorat and Clos Erasmus); it's a fresher and lighter expression but without being weak. It's still a baby that needs to burn the...
100 FS A complex bouquet that develops with a little time in the glass from fresh wild berry notes to floral and savoury-herbal nuances with violets and dried thyme. Extremely elegant on the palate, intense yet light-footed...
96 WA 2020 was a challenging year that gave them a lot of work in the vineyard, but it it paid off. The 2020 Laurel feels very elegant, balanced and fresh, a little lighter perhaps, with perfectly ripe tannins, a little in...
98 WA / 95 DE The flagship 2018 Clos Mogador is a blend of 45% Garnacha, 29% Cariñena, 16% Syrah and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon that fermented with natural yeasts and showcases their philosophy—slow fermentations...
96+ WA / 96 DE The 2016 Manyetes Vi de Vila Gratallops combines the rustic personality of the warm place—the slate soils and the old Cariñena vines—and the freshness of the 2016 vintage. It has those...
96 WA Following the new classification of wines, the 2019 Villa de Corullón is a Vino de Villa (village), produced with grapes from 6.71 hectares divided into 200 small plots they own on slate-rich soils at 500 to...
97 WA / 96 JS I find the 2020 Moncerbal a little more closed than the other 2020s, darker and serious. It's still moderately ripe, with 13.8% alcohol, sweet tannins and a soft texture. Today, it shows a little austere and...
98 WA The ultra elegant, sleek and mineral 2021 Moncerbal has amazing freshness, ultra refined tannins and lots of complexity, with layers and layers of flavors and aromas and great depth. There is a sense of harmony here...
97 WA / 95 JS I was blown away by the 2020 wines in barrel in June 2021 and found the 2020 Villa de Corullón very ready, open, expressive, floral and ethereal. It destroyed the idea I had of a warm and ripe 2020...
97 WA / 95 JS #55 James Suckling's Top 100 Spanish Wines of 2023 The vino de villa village red 2021 Corullón is extremely floral and elegant, clean, precise, fresh and very complete and harmonious, with a super...
99 WA / 98 JS The bottled 2020 Pingus has settled, and the strong Mediterranean accent that was quite strong early on seems to have calmed down. The wine shows more of the serious Pingus character and is harmonious,...
99 WA It's always an exciting moment tasting a new vintage of the wine from one of the most beautiful vineyards in Montsant, and the 2019 Espectacle del Montsant didn't disappoint. It's always Mediterranean, heady and ripe,...
98 WA As with other wines, I also tasted the 2018 Espectacle del Montsant next to the 2017 to catch up, as I last tasted the region some 16 months ago. 2018 was a cooler year of slow ripeness, and the grapes achieved an...
96 WA There is more freshness in the 2020 La Vizcaína El Rapolao, where I even found notes of eucalyptus. It's medium-bodied and has fine tannins, very tasty and balanced. There are two new plots in 2020, so they...
97 WA I love the 2021 La Vizcaína La Vitoriana, where they use the westernmost part of the vineyard with more sand in the soils, mostly north facing. It's a wine with a floral nose that is aromatic and perfumed,...
Coming from the oldest vines, some of them centuries old, of the Tempranillo variety, a manual selection of the best clusters is carried out and a cryo-maceration is carried out, that is, cold maceration, even freezing...
97 WA The vino de paraje from A Serra in Dragonte 2021 Paixar is as good as ever, with the austerity of the slate slopes and the old vines that deliver low yields of concentrated and characterful grapes. It has a moderate...
98 JS / 97 WA / 97 DE / 97 WE / 95 VM #11 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2022#36 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Spain 2022 Extremely well-mannered, traditional character to this, showing layer...
100 JS / 97 WA #1 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Spain 2023#10 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023 So much dried flower, mushroom, iron, rust, sweet berry, and grilled orange. Full-bodied with very elegant...
98 WA 222 cases produced The 2019 Nit de Nin Mas d’en Caçador has the exotic aroma of berries and ripe plums, sour cherries, graphite, classical Priorat, perfumed, extroverted and exuberant, which makes it...
94+ WA / 94 JS There is around 20% new oak in the 2020 Flor de Pingus, and because it has a little younger vines (there was a land-consolidation project in La Horra in 2006!), there'll be some Garnacha starting in 2021 and...
96 JS / 95-96 WA / 95 VM Dark cherries, ripe but fresh blueberries, slate, violets and a hint of graphite. There is lushness of fruit but it remains fresh and very primary in the middle with powdery tannins and a long, even...
97 WA It's not clear which vintage is better for the Ultreia range, as it depends on the wine. I think the 2019 Ultreia El Rapolao is better than the 2020, perhaps because it's from a warmer and riper year, when this wine...
97 WA This is the first time I have tasted La Vitoriana from Ultreia, and the 2019 Ultreia La Vitoriana is the first vintage produced. It is from the north side of the same vineyard produced by Castro Ventosa. There are...
98 JD / 97+ WA The 2019 Finca el Bosque is another single vineyard and comes from a site on a deep, gravelly escarpment overlooking the Ebro River. It offers more ripe blue fruits and cassis as well as sappy herbs,...
96 WA / 96 JA / 95 DE / 95 JS#44 James Suckling's Top 100 Spanish Wines of 2023 There is a change in the 2020 Matallana, as they have included Jean-Guillaume Prats (ex-Cos d'Estournel, ex-Lafite...) in the Ribera del...
95 WA / 95 WE / 95 VM / 93 WS The 2010 Alabaster was cropped even lower than the 2011 at seven hectoliters per hectare and later on October 9 and 10. The bouquet is tightly wound at the moment, with lifted black cherries,...
98 WE / 96+ WA / 96 JS / 95 WS This deep violet-colored wine offers a bouquet of blackberry preserves, clove, black-olive paste and rose petal. Lively acidity and an enticing note of butterscotch appear on entry. A cloak of...
97 WA I was greatly impressed by the 2008 El Puntido Gran Reserva, a wine with a more traditional profile than the majority of wines from the Eguren family. At age 14, the wine is glorious, still young and with a mixture of...
98 TA / 97 WE / 95 VM At its best - and La Nieta is a very good example - 2018 produced some delicious wines in Rioja. This single vineyard parcel of 1.78 hectares, planted on bony clay and limestone soils in 1975, has...
98 JA / 98 DE / 97 JS / 96 WA #38 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Spain 2021 The talented Telmo Rodriguez is launching this wine onto the Place with its first vintage for the entirety of its production. The grapes...
100 JA / 99 JS / 98 DE / 97 WA / 96 WI#5 James Suckling's Top 100 Spanish Wines of 2023#49 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023 I tasted this at the property from barrel, thrilled to follow it now in bottle...