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Tempranillo

Spain's backbone, from Rioja to Ribera.

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Viña Arana Rioja Gran Reserva, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2016 Red Wine
Viña Arana Rioja Gran Reserva, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2016
Rioja, Spain

Arana is the leaner, more restrained of the house's Gran Reservas, and the better introduction to the style for that reason.

Standard £45.00
Members £36.00
Any 6+ £40.50
Rioja Reserva, Viña Ardanza, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2020 Red Wine
Rioja Reserva, Viña Ardanza, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2020
Rioja, Spain

Viña Ardanza is the wine most often used to define what a classic Rioja Reserva should taste like, and the Garnacha in the blend gives it...

Standard £35.00
Members £28.00
Any 6+ £31.50
Rioja Alavesa, Las Parcelas, Bideona 2021 Red Wine
Rioja Alavesa, Las Parcelas, Bideona 2021
Rioja, Spain

The multi-village blend from the same project, and the cheapest way to understand the argument.

Standard £25.00
Members £20.00
Any 6+ £22.50
Rioja Gran Reserva, 890, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2011 Red Wine
Rioja Gran Reserva, 890, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2011
Rioja, Spain

'890' is the wine La Rioja Alta makes only when it judges a vintage worthy of the name, and six years in barrel followed by six in bottle...

Standard £177.50
Members £142.00
Any 6+ £159.75
Ribera del Duero, Finca El Otero, Áster 2019 Red Wine
Ribera del Duero, Finca El Otero, Áster 2019
Castilla y León, Spain

The same family's Ribera estate, farming a single high-altitude parcel rather than blending across the appellation.

Standard £63.50
Members £50.80
Any 6+ £57.15
Peña Roble Reserva, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2018 Red Wine
Peña Roble Reserva, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2018
Castilla y León, Spain

Penafiel sits at Ribera's centre, and Resalte work with old vines around the town at prices well below the region's better-known names.

Standard £31.00
Members £24.80
Any 6+ £27.90
Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2016 Red Wine
Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2016
Rioja, Spain

The house's second flagship, released only after four years in American oak and four more in bottle, which is why it arrives drinkable ra...

Standard £74.00
Members £59.20
Any 6+ £66.60
EDKA 9/10
Ribera del Duero, El Espino, Áster 2020 Red Wine
Ribera del Duero, El Espino, Áster 2020
Castilla y León, Spain

El Espino is the plot selection off Finca Áster's 87 hectares at Anguix, optically sorted and built for finesse rather than weight.

Standard £44.00
Members £35.20
Any 6+ £39.60
Rioja El Camino, Torre de Oña 2021 Red Wine
Rioja El Camino, Torre de Oña 2021
Rioja, Spain

This is Rioja made at the scale of a Burgundian grand cru: 1.54 hectares of bush vines averaging eighty years old, yielding barely a quar...

Standard £140.00
Members £112.00
Any 6+ £126.00
Ribera del Duero Crianza, Origen, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2021 Red Wine
Ribera del Duero Crianza, Origen, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2021
Castilla y León, Spain

A serious Ribera Crianza from a small, gravity-fed winery that ferments with wild yeasts and ages in 80% French oak.

Standard £29.00
Members £23.20
Any 6+ £26.10
Rioja Reserva, Finca Martelo, Torre de Oña 2016 Red Wine
Rioja Reserva, Finca Martelo, Torre de Oña 2016
Rioja, Spain

Most Rioja is blended from across the region; Finca Martelo comes from one 60-year-old plot at 630 metres, farmed by La Rioja Alta's Torr...

Standard £39.00
Members £31.20
Any 6+ £35.10
Rioja Alavesa, Phinca La Revilla Tinto, Bodegas Bhilar 2015 Red Wine
Rioja Alavesa, Phinca La Revilla Tinto, Bodegas Bhilar 2015
Rioja, Spain

Bhilar farm biodynamically at a level almost no established Rioja house attempts, and bottle by parcel rather than by ageing category.

Standard £73.50
Members £58.80
Any 6+ £66.15
EDKA 7/10
Tempranillo/Cabernet/Merlot, Ars Nova, Tandem 2018 Red Wine
Tempranillo/Cabernet/Merlot, Ars Nova, Tandem 2018
Navarra, Spain

Navarra sits between Rioja and Bordeaux in both geography and grape mix, and Ars Nova draws on all of it in one blend.

Standard £20.50
Members £16.40
Any 6+ £18.45
Tempranillo/Merlot, Ars In Vitro, Tandem 2022 Red Wine
Tempranillo/Merlot, Ars In Vitro, Tandem 2022
Navarra, Spain

The Yerri Valley is cool and high enough that Tempranillo holds its acidity, and Tandem keep this cuvee out of oak entirely so the fruit leads.

Standard £18.00
Members £14.40
Any 6+ £16.20
Ribera del Duero Reserva, Áster 2022 Red Wine
Ribera del Duero Reserva, Áster 2022
Castilla y León, Spain

Áster is La Rioja Alta's Ribera del Duero estate, farming vines planted in 1990 at 780 metres in Anguix.

Standard £28.00
Members £22.40
Any 6+ £25.20
Ribera del Duero Joven, Peña Roble, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2024 Red Wine
Ribera del Duero Joven, Peña Roble, Bodegas Resalte de Peñafiel 2024
Castilla y León, Spain

Resalte work only with Tempranillo, from eighty hectares of low-yielding vines around Peñafiel at the centre of Ribera del Duero.

Standard £21.50
Members £17.20
Any 6+ £19.35
Rioja Alavesa, Laguardia L4GD4, Bideona 2020 Red Wine
Rioja Alavesa, Laguardia L4GD4, Bideona 2020
Rioja, Spain

A single-village Rioja bottled outside the Crianza and Reserva ladder, so it tastes of Laguardia rather than of barrel time.

Standard £34.50
Members £27.60
Any 6+ £31.05
Rioja Gran Reserva, Bodegas Ondarre 2019 Red Wine
Rioja Gran Reserva, Bodegas Ondarre 2019
Rioja, Spain

Gran Reserva is the longest apprenticeship in Spanish wine, and Ondarre give this one 28 months on the lees in new oak and another 32 mon...

Standard £22.00
Members £17.60
Any 6+ £19.80
Rioja Reserva, Selección Especial, Viña Alberdi, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2021 Red Wine
Rioja Reserva, Selección Especial, Viña Alberdi, La Rioja Alta S.A. 2021
Rioja, Spain

The house that defined the traditional Rioja Reserva, and the cuvée where its method is easiest to read.

Standard £25.50
Members £20.40
Any 6+ £22.95
Rioja Alavesa, Bhilar Tinto, Bodegas Bhilar 2024 Red Wine
Rioja Alavesa, Bhilar Tinto, Bodegas Bhilar 2024
Rioja, Spain

A village wine that shows Rioja Alavesa before oak takes over: forty-year-old bush vines, ploughed by horse and certified biodynamic.

Standard £22.50
Members £18.00
Any 6+ £20.25

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