Robert Parker: The Wine Advocate

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Spain, Gredos: Wines from 2023 and 2024

After the warm and dry 2022 and 2023 vintages comes a very challenging 2024, a year of low yields but very good quality, like 2023....

Luis Gutiérrez • 11 Dec 2025

garnacha Albillo Real Spanish wine

Spain: Rioja at a Crossroads

Rioja, like many wine regions, is at a crossroads. Given the current consumption trends, they have to decide whether to take the path of volume or quality....

Luis Gutiérrez • 03 Mar 2025

garnacha Tempranillo climate change

Spain, Gredos: The 2022 and 2023 Vintages

2022 and 2023 have been warm years in Gredos. But the wines from both years are quite different, and the 2023s are a lot fresher than those from 2022....

Luis Gutiérrez • 21 Nov 2024

Spanish wine grenache garnacha

Spain: Cataluña – The Dry Years

Most of the wines I tasted were from the last three vintages—2021, 2022 and 2023. All three years were dry, following an unusually rainy 2020....

Luis Gutiérrez • 17 May 2024

garnacha Priorat Catalonia

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....

Luis Gutiérrez • 28 Feb 2024

garnacha Spanish wine Rioja

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....

Luis Gutiérrez • 30 May 2023

wildfire garnacha Spanish wine

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....

Luis Gutiérrez • 31 Jan 2023

Spanish wine Ribera del Duero garnacha

Spain: Catch Up on Cataluña – Priorat, Penedès, Sparkling Wines and the Other 10 Appellations

Wine is produced almost everywhere in Catalonia. While it’s impossible to cover them all, this report includes 500+ wines, spanning all 12 appellations....

Luis Gutiérrez • 02 Nov 2022

garnacha Cataluña Cava

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?...

Luis Gutiérrez • 13 Jul 2022

garnacha Rioja Spanish wine

Spain: Aragón and Navarra 2021

Vintages 2018, 2019 and 2020 represent close to 90% of the wines included in this article, and the trend for a Garnacha revival is stronger than ever....

Luis Gutiérrez • 10 Nov 2021

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