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

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...

O Rosal is the corner of Rías Baixas where Albariño is traditionally blended with Loureiro and Treixadura, and that is what gives Pazo de...

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

Alejandro Fernandez is the producer who proved in the 1970s that Ribera could rival Vega Sicilia, and Pesquera remains the estate the reg...

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

Phylloxera never reached the Canary Islands, so these vines are ungrafted and several of the varieties grow nowhere else on earth.

Navarra is better known for everyday rosé, and Mácula is the corrective: a Bordeaux blend grown high in the Yerri Valley, fermented witho...

'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...

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

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.

Priorat's llicorella slate forces vines to root deep, producing wines of extraordinary concentration.

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...

Uclés is a high, chalky corner of central Spain that few outside the country can name, and 800 metres of altitude is what keeps this fresh at 14.5%.

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

Most Albariño is made to be drunk inside a year; this one is built to last, with twelve months on fine lees across oak, concrete and stee...

Viognier is a rarity in Navarra, and Tandem ferment all of it in 300-litre French oak with four months of daily lees stirring, so it drin...

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.

Ungrafted vines over a century old, on some of the oldest rock in the Canaries, are rare anywhere.

Almost no Albariño is made like this - a single old-vine plot above the sea, ten months in large French oak, and 14% of genuine weight.

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

Canarian whites rarely reach the UK at this level of seriousness.

Viñátigo have done more than anyone to rescue the Canaries' forgotten grapes, and Vijariego Blanco is the most thrilling of them.

Ribeiro is one of Spain's oldest white regions and one of its least understood, and Xosé Lois Sebio farms the hard plots nobody else wants.