Tag: tempranillo

On the pour: Valbuena 5°

This month in the wine-tasting machines at our London Shop, you’ll find one of Spain’s finest wines. Wine Advisor Joshua Friend explains why Vega Sicilia’s 2014 Valbuena 5° is worthy of a detour

Let’s talk Tempranillo

Best known for producing the wines of Rioja, Tempranillo is a grape with many faces. Here Buyer Catriona Felstead MW talks through the varied styles it produces in Spain and further afield Glorious Tempranillo is Spain’s flagship grape variety. In its traditional heartland, it is revered for its contribution to rich, deep Riojas; structured and […]

Rioja – Ancient and Modern

There is something beguiling about Spain, about the way in which this oldest of cultures is able to embrace the new and give it a pleasing twist of tradition. The beauty in that most modern of constructions, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, resides in its affinity to its surroundings; the way in which the shapes and […]