Spain

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

Txakoli is rarely made this carefully - a single estate vineyard within sight of the Bay of Biscay, rather than bought-in fruit.

Viña Cartin have made nothing but Albariño since 1977, and it shows in how cleanly this is drawn.

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

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...

Graciano is normally a seasoning grape, blended in a few percent at a time for colour and acidity, because it yields too little for anyon...

Maturana Blanca was almost lost to Rioja and is still planted in tiny quantity; this is a single 4.3-hectare plot of it at up to 750 metres.

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

White Rioja is usually either oxidative and old-school or scrubbed clean in steel; this is neither.

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

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...

Ribeira Sacra Mencía is one of Spain's most exciting styles and still under the radar.

Jumilla Monastrell is one of Spain's great value regions and Finca Bacara farms it organically at 900 metres, which keeps the wine fresh ...

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

Godello is Galicia's answer to those who find Albariño too lean, and Monterrei, the region's warmest and driest DO, gives it extra ripeness.

Sousón is one of Galicia's most characterful native reds and this is a rare varietal bottling from a small, well-reviewed project.

Verdejo from Rueda is Spain's answer to Sauvignon Blanc and Javier Sanz is one of the appellation's benchmark family growers, with vineya...

Albariño gets the attention, but Treixadura from neighbouring Ribeiro is at least as interesting and less familiar.

Pure Garnacha from Rioja Alavesa is unusual, and this one comes from old, dry-farmed bush vines on limestone, farmed biodynamically and p...

A single-vineyard, estate-bottled Albariño from a family producer that works only with Galician grapes.

Tempranillo Blanco is a Rioja curiosity that few UK shelves carry, and Ondarre's old bush vines give it real substance.

Garnacha Blanca is an underrated Spanish white, and at 700 metres in Cariñena it keeps its freshness.

Carraovejas broke Ribera convention by blending Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot into Tempranillo, and by farming steep slopes above Penafie...

The village white from Bhilar's biodynamic, horse-ploughed vineyards above Elvillar, made from old bush-vine Viura with a little Garnacha...