Viña Zorzal Graciano, Navarra, 2010
This has to be one of the best value red wines being offered the Wine Soc just now.
Bodegas Terras Gauda
Bodegas Terras Gauda, in north west Spain, are making some extraordinarily good wines from the local Rias Baixas grapes.
White Spanish trinity of albariño, godello and verdejo
The far north-west corner of Spain, the bit above Portugal, with its lush, verdant colours of the Costa Verde, due in part to its high rainfall coming off the Atlantic, is a mecca for fresh, vibrant, perfumed white wines.
Rioja and North West Spain
It’s not the snappiest of book titles, but it does do what it says on the tin. It’s the fifth book (Bordeaux, California, Champagne, Tuscany) in a series of similarly titled tomes from the team at magazine “the world of fine wine”, this one written by respected experts on Spanish wines.
Bodegas Valdesil, Godello 2009, Valdeorras, Spain
This was the outstanding wine from Waitrose’s recent press tasting. It’s a real stunner, complex, sophisticated, layered with freshness running through its veins.
Cava bubbles forth
Not quite half of the non-Champagne bubbles drunk in the UK is Cava.
Bright whites from Spain
Spain makes some super white wines in fresh, aromatic, fruit-focused styles, unencumbered by complicating oak.
