100% Garnacha Tinta – D.O. Navarra. Viña Zorzal calls this 2025 Garnacha a vino de comarca histórica: a wine assembled from Corella, Cintruénigo, Fitero and Lerga to express a broader landscape rather than an individual parcel.
This month we have another island wine. Mallorca is an island of limestone, sea wind, and hard Mediterranean light: Manto Negro/Merlot/Syrah/Cabernet Sauvignon, Vi de la Terra Mallorca
There are regions defined by a grape, and grapes that quietly reshape a region.
There are wines that speak softly, and others that speak clearly of place, effort, and conviction.
Rioja DOCa sits along the Ebro Valley, where Atlantic air from the west meets warmer Mediterranean influences, with mountains on either side tempering extremes and giving the region its long, steady growing season.
Bodega Huerta de Albalá, Vino de la Tierra de Cádiz: Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon y Tintilla de Rota.
48% Maturana Blanca, 47% Garnacha Blanca and 5% Viura Bodegas Tihom. D.O La Rioja
Some time back, we reviewed CARE’s maceración carbónica — a wine that impressed us with its energy, bright fruit, and drinkability.
This month we are back in Granada, raising our glass to the small local producers who continue crafting serious wines despite long droughts and merciless summer heat.
Bodegas Barahonda Heredad Candela/Petit Verdot. D.O. Yecla: French grapes have a way of slipping across borders — no passport, no papers — and setting up shop in some of Spain’s sunniest corners.