Spanish Wine

The 2021 Ultreia La Vitoriana shows some unusual toasty notes, hints of raw meat and lots of tannins, and this is the more tannic of the Ultreia range even if they lower the intensity here. The wine is a bit wild, 90% from clay and 10% sand (while La...

The new 2021 Ultreia Villegas is from a part of the vineyard that was previously use for the Ultreia Valtuille, and they selected the sandier part to produce this bottling. It's very low yielding, and the grapes ripened slowly so that the wine achieved a...

This aged white wine brings us back to the Monopoles of another era. The grapes used to produce Monopole Clasico are harvested from the Villalba de Rioja vineyard, over 5 hectares planted in calcareous soils 15 years ago with an east-facing aspect. The...