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WINE OF THE WEEK: C.V.N.E. Imperial Rioja Reserva 2019, Rioja, Spain
This Rioja Reserva has already featured in my Festive Red Wine Guide 2025, but it’s so good, so appropriate for Christmas and also relatively widely available that I’m revisiting it here
Dec 4, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: Beronia Rueda Verdejo 2024, Rueda, Spain
There are currently some massively tempting supermarket offers on this white wine made from the Verdejo grape in Spain's Rueda region. It's an aromatic dry white with citrus, herb and meadow-flower aromas and a palate combining zippy lime with delicate almond, nutty richness.
Oct 30, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: La Multa Albilla Sobre Lías 2023, Vino Blanco de España, Spain
If you like trying wines that are off the beaten track, I can't wax too lyrical about this dry white made from low-yielding old vines high up in the arid hills of Manchuela in the Calatayud region in the west of Aragón
Oct 16, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: El Troyano Orange Verdejo 2024, La Mancha, Spain
Almost the only thing this organic and biodynamic Spanish orange wine has in common with any other wine is sheer, unadulterated deliciousness. It’s a slightly hazy, pale apricot colour, and mouthwateringly aromatic with redcurrant, orange and camomile notes.
Jun 19, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: La Bien Plantá Garnacha 2023, Almansa, Spain
This bright, juicy, organic red from Almansa, Spain is a new wine and the first biodynamic wine from Gil Family estates
May 8, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: Tempore Generación 73 Garnacha 2020, Bajo Aragón, Spain
I can’t help wondering if I have already found one of my favourite red wines of 2025: upbeat, upliftingly delicious and enjoyable Garnacha
Jan 30, 2025


WINE OF THE WEEK: Barbadillo Pastora Manzanilla Pasada En Rama, Jerez, Spain
Next week is Sherry Week, but I would be recommending this dazzling Manzanilla Pasada whatever the week
Oct 31, 2024


WINE OF THE WEEK: Toro Loco Superior 2023, Utiel-Requena, Spain
This is the kind of good, honest red wine that comes in useful for parties or when you just need to open a bottle without ceremony
Oct 10, 2024


WINE OF THE WEEK: Pazo de Lusco Albariño 2023, Rías Baixas, Spain
The white grape variety Albariño is better known to the world’s wine drinkers than the Spanish region from which it comes
Sep 19, 2024


WINE OF THE WEEK: Marqués de Riscal Rioja Reserva 2019, Rioja, Spain
Tasting this Rioja a couple of months ago reminded me just how consistently good some of the world’s most familiar wines are
Aug 29, 2024


Prime Time for Pink: 22 Rosés to See Out Summer 2024
Summer was late coming this year and so is my round-up rosés, but here it is, new wines and new vintages of old favourites, blazing a trail
Aug 22, 2024


WINE OF THE WEEK: Juan Gil Jumilla Blanco 2023, Jumilla, Spain
This refreshing, dry and aromatic Spanish Muscat is a perfect whie wine for summer drinking
Jul 4, 2024


Exploring Wines in Utiel-Requena With Bodegas Hispano+Suizas: Far more than Bobal and a Long Way from Bulk Wine
The quality-focused Hispano+Suizas winery is helping to transform the reputation of southeast Spain's Utiel-Requena wine region
Jul 2, 2024


WINE OF THE WEEK: Contino Rioja Reserva 2018, Spain
£22–£26, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrison, North & South Wines and other independents If you haven’t got your red wine for the...
Dec 21, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Gonzalez Byass Leonor Palo Cortado Seco 12 Años, Jerez, Spain
£18–£19.95, The Drinks Emporium, Rise & Vine, Ocado, Flagship Wines, Laithwaites, Averys, Master of Malt, The Whisky Exchange Sherry...
Nov 2, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Clunia Albillo 2021, Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon, Spain
£17.49, House of Townend In small letters on the label of Clunia Albillo, it says 'Viñedo Extremo Cultivado a 1000m'. Fair enough. An...
Oct 5, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Mar de Frades Albariño Atlantico 2021, Rías Baixas, Spain
£16, Tesco There are times when no other white wine seems to fit the mood more than a Galician Albariño. Now is one of them. You can...
Aug 10, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Beronia Rioja Crianza Tempranillo 2019, Rioja, Spain
£10.99–£12, Majestic, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Amazon, Ocado It’s more than six years since I last recommended a Beronia Rioja here, so...
Apr 6, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Bodegas La Horra Corimbo I Reserva 2016, Ribera del Duero, Spain
£19–£23, London End Wines, Concept Fine Wines, The Drink Shop (UK), Noble Green Wines, Ellis Wharton Wines Even if you're not looking for...
Oct 20, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Ramón Bilbao Límite Sur Garnacha 2017, Rioja, Spain
£19.95, The Great Wine Co This is a wonderful new take on red Rioja: all energy, intensity, airiness and silky texture carried in an...
Aug 18, 2022
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