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
Macià Batle 1856 Tinto 2022
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7 Fuentes – Suertes del Marqués
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Valle de la Orotava, Tenerife — Listán Negro: wines arrive carrying their landscape in a bottle, 7 Fuentes comes with a volcano under the cork.
Sexto Elemento – Bobal (Utiel-Requena)
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There are wines that speak softly, and others that speak clearly of place, effort, and conviction.
Muriel Reserva 2019 – DOCa Rioja
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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.
Barbazul 2021
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Bodega Huerta de Albalá, Vino de la Tierra de Cádiz: Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon y Tintilla de Rota.
Tihom Blanco 2020
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48% Maturana Blanca, 47% Garnacha Blanca and 5% Viura Bodegas Tihom. D.O La Rioja
Bodegas CARE: Bodegas Añadas
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Some time back, we reviewed CARE’s maceración carbónica — a wine that impressed us with its energy, bright fruit, and drinkability.
Bodegas Vertijana
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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.
Wine: Bodegas Barahonda
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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.
Wine: Finca La Estacada
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Tempranillo Crianza – D.O. Uclés: Castilla-La Mancha is huge! 15% of the Spanish territory, larger than Ireland and slightly smaller than Austria.