Spain, Rioja: Update 2024 – Volume Loses, Quality Wins

Rioja is possibly the most dynamic region in Spain at the moment. It’s one of the largest and most important, so in a way, it’s logical....

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Update on Central and Mediterranean Spain

This report features mostly 2021s and 2022s, and they prove that Mediterranean wines don’t have to be heavy or overripe, they can also be fresh....

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Spain, Galicia: Emilio Rojo – The Icon from Ribeiro

This vertical tasting of the wines from Emilio Rojo—ranging from the 2004 to the 2019 vintage—was a great opportunity to assess the aging potential of the wines....

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Spain: Aragón and Navarra – Green Shoots

Aragón and Navarra are Garnacha-producing regions that suffered the attack of international (French) varieties in the 1990s and 2020s. But Garnacha is coming back strong....

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Spain: The Wines from the Duero – Focus on Arribes

This report covers Ribera del Duero, Arribes and other appellations and IGPs along the Duero River, with a total of 408 wines reviewed....

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Spain: Make Rioja Great Again!

Let me start with a bang: I haven’t been so excited about Rioja in many, many years! And what has happened?...

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Spain: The Pingus 2021s from Barrel

2021 looks like a superb vintage in Ribera del Duero, and the Pingus wines from Peter Sisseck that I tasted from barrel are incredibly elegant....

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Spain: Peter Sisseck New Releases—Pingus, Hacienda Monasterio and Bodegas San Francisco Javier

Peter Sisseck tends to harvest early, so he was able to take a break to taste the bottled 2019s and the 2020s from cask while I was at the winery....

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Spain: Update on the Canary Islands – Focus on Gran Canaria and the Terroirs of Lanzarote

Wine production in the Canary Islands is relatively small, and less than a handful of the wineries I reviewed on this trip existed 10 years ago....

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Spain: Canary Islands Renaissance

It’s thrilling to see an old wine region come back to life, and that’s what has happened to the Canary Islands in the last decade....

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