{"title":"Biodynamic","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-mountain-blanco-dry-moscatel","title":"'Mountain Blanco' Dry Moscatel 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dry white selection of Telmo's mountain-top Moscatel. Electrifying nose: pollen, tiny tart green grapes, poached white nectarine, wattle, bramble and spiced honeycomb; deep, fine minerally yellow soil. Great texture and line, with almost succulent fruit up front, then drawn down to leanness and nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Malaga_Moscatels_-_Mountain_Blanco_MR_Molino_Real.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643788294,"sku":"","price":41.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Mountain_Blanco_2014.jpg?v=1548222131"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-pegaso-granito-garnacha","title":"'Pegaso Granito' Garnacha 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe granite vineyards of the 'Pegaso Granito' are high altitude, but flatter in profile than the 'Pizzara' and oriented to the north. The cold mineral soil and cool orientation really does promote amazing finesse and delicacy in the fruit of these 100 yo+ vase pruned bush vines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrange juice and Tahitian lime enliven the nose, which has a layer of bracken over pimentón-spiced tiny red berry fruit, with dried rose and briar. There’s good volume on entry to the palate, which is long, subtle and balanced, forming a delta fan out and back in the mouth, without ever getting big. The large, older barrels used are perfectly integrated with the old wood character of these centenarian vines –careful extraction has promoted delicacy and harmony, where too often such characters become caricatures; very long-lived.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Cebreros_Sierra_de_Gredos_Garnachas_Pegaso_Pizzara_Granito_da4fd49f-f18f-45f3-97d9-402af4571f0d.pdf?v=1596337042\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643836230,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/telmopegasogranito.gif?v=1554017393"},{"product_id":"alvaro-palacios-finca-dofi-garnatxa-blend","title":"'Finca Dofi' Garnatxa blend 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlanted in 1991 at around 300 metres altitude, Dofi is on ferrous brown and yellow slate – a more voluptuous, more energetic soil than L’Ermita. Still, the soil is poor enough that its grasses are cut back, as the vines don’t need any competition for nutrient in the dry, poor soils. Dofi is planted to three genetic versions of the local Garnacha: that of L'Ermita itself, one from the ‘les Aubaguetes (the Shady Vineyard)’ at Bellmunt to the south of Gratallops, and another strain from La Vilella Baixa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganically farmed, protected by valerian and cereal infusions and sprayed with mined sulphur, with added nutrient from sheep\/cow poo every 3 years. Composed of Garnacha with a touch of Samsó, Dofi is de-stemmed, gently crushed, fermented in open vat with pigeage and 42 day maceration, before aging in new French barrique, bottled unfiltered and unfined. Garnacha with 4% Samsó.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThanks to its soil, Finca Dofi has more cherry-pith textural richness than the delightful austerity of the Gratallops village wine. Dofi is loaded with medicinal brushy-bitter herbs and earthen hill-country smells. The nose tingles with pink grapefruit among Mediterranean balsam. The palate has wonderful sweet-spiced pippy richness, and full tannins decorated with herbs. A vibrant OJ-acid inflection gives freshness and rips all into an electric line. The palate is lively and vital with no heft despite its richness and power.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat.pdf?928\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643836870,"sku":"","price":330.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalaciosfincadofi.gif?v=1553558503"},{"product_id":"alvaro-palacios-vi-de-la-vila-gratallops-garnatxa-samso","title":"'Vi de la Vila Gratallops' Garnatxa-Sams\u0026oacute; 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fruit source is Àlvaro’s various holdings in-and-around Gratallops, 8.5 hectares in 10 parcels other than Finca Dofi and L’Ermita. The wine’s composition for the first vintages (2007 on) was roughly 1\/3 each of Garnacha, Samsó and Cabernet. From 2011, it’s Garnacha with about 15% old-vine Samsó and some white. De-stemmed, spontaneous fermentation in open wooden vat, macerated 40 days, 16 months in mid-sized French oak, 1-2 years old. Unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGratallops is a lovely pale pomegranate colour.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe nose is equally balsamic and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efloral, reflecting the astringent oils of its home among Holm Oak, Mediterranean Pines, Lavender and more. Beneath, a lash of Llicorella’s ashy earth. Strung through these botanicals are the delightful, pretty-pulpy red cherry and red apple fruits of Priorat Garnatxa, with a tell of blood orange flesh and rind. It’s a beautifully balanced wine with great fluidity through persistent gentle tannins and spicy-acid in a grapefruit citric tangy finish. Less glyceric than ‘Grenache’, this is a crystalline, crisp, clear expression of Garnacha via the mineral, smoky freshness of the llicorella.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePure, inviting, persistent and gentle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat.pdf?928\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643837638,"sku":"","price":157.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalaciosgratallops.gif?v=1553558960"},{"product_id":"alvaro-palacios-les-terrasses-garnatxa-samso","title":"'Les Terrasses' Garnatxa-Sams\u0026oacute; 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLes Terrasses, like Camins is a regional wine, but is defined as “Velles Vinyes en costers”: taken solely from old mountain bush vines grown on the llicorella (slate) soils of the Cims or hilltops around the rim of Priorat’s high country. It faithfully reflects the historical material Álvaro discovered on arrival in 1989. Les Terrasses is a high quality wine and is significantly good value for an authentic, delicious Priorat with genuine old vine character. Fruit is taken from 80 historical plots scattered through 8 of the 12 Priorat villages, from vines aged 60-90 years and cropped around 1.5 tonnes\/hectare. Winemaking is as for Camins, but aged 12 months and bottled unfiltered. Over recent years, it has slowly changed to a Garnacha-dominant wine as more mature Garnacha grown en costers is available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarnatxa with 45% Samsó. Ashy, deep and dark with rosehips and leathery spice under cherry blossom, with a dash of orange juice. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSolid-fruited thanks to the\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e pruney old vine Samsó, it’s garnet coloured, opening to a velvety floral-spice fan on the nose and a mouth-feel wedded to its stony earth origin. Fluent and long, a steely slate freshness underpins the fruit, reflecting the schist soil. The fruit is floral, slinky, dark and abuzz with briary herbs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat_52ed9051-5999-446d-ad00-e65ac297b887.pdf?v=1595987697\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643838342,"sku":"","price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalacioslesterrases.gif?v=1553558830"},{"product_id":"alvaro-palacios-lermita-garnatxa-blend","title":"'L'Ermita' Garnatxa blend 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eA conical, or bull-nosed, very steep hillslope. Facing north-east at 350-430 metres altitude, it’s planted to 92% Garnacha, with 7% Samsó (this goes into ‘Gratallops’) and a tiny bit of white (a mix of PX, Macabeu and Garnacha Gris). The soil is alive with minerals, not just its metallic blue-green slate (compared to the more ferrous pinky-brown slate of Dofi), but also zinc and aluminium. These are pre-Cambrian soils 300+ million years old formed deep (5-50 kilometres) in the earth’s crust, and which erupted in Priorat during the Carboniforous period (approximately 250 million years ago, similar to Bierzo, the Douro, Alsace and Cote Rotie). L’Ermita is planted at 4,600 vines\/hectare, all trained ‘en parra’ (bush vines trained on a 2 metre pole) and tilled by mule. Harvested in late October, all berries are hand de-stemmed and selected, and the wine is fermented in open wooden vats then aged in new French barriques before bottling without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe nose is glorious: great richness, open, imbued with movement through garriga smells of snipped sour herbs. Smoked berries are run through with bosky smell of sticks, lavender and sour-edged flower petals. Creamy, wild red berries are touched purple, sweet'n'sour with orange juicy acidity, opening to a mineral thrill at the end. Heavenly.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat_52ed9051-5999-446d-ad00-e65ac297b887.pdf?v=1595987697\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643838854,"sku":"","price":4600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalacioslermita.gif?v=1553558557"},{"product_id":"guimaro-finca-capelinos-single-vineyard-mencia","title":"'Finca Capeli\u0026ntilde;os' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust 4 barriques are made from this south-west facing 0.6 hectare plot of dark slate. It's a field blend of Mencía with a little Cariño and Mouratón Negra. Capelinos sits below Meixeman at 350-400 metres and is vinified similarly. 45% stems, long fermentation in open foudre, 12 months or so ageing in 225 and 500 litre old wood. First vintage was 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name means 'little church'. Capelinos is more strict and structured than the relatively ethereal Pombeiras. A wine of bright, full cherry fruit, great spice, the voice of the soil and well structured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDespite a butch suggestion, this crackles with witch hazel, tea leaf and black raspberry and is a remarkably calm and composed unit. The palate is a unified field, utterly harmonious, so laid back you could be fooled that nothing much was happening at all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643850694,"sku":"","price":210.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimarocapelinos.gif?v=1595908255"},{"product_id":"guimaro-mencia-joven","title":"Joven Menc\u0026iacute;a de Amandi 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eA blend of granite, slate, and sand soils from many parcels, which are fermented separately by soil type then blended. It's a summary of GuÌ_maro's soils, and with an average vine age of 40 years. The Joven is made half in foudre and half in tank; de-stemmed, with around 20% as whole-cluster, fermented after 6-day cold maceration. 20-30 day spontaneous indigenous yeast fermentation, 6 months in tank on lees, un-filtered, cold stabilised, egg white fined. No oak ageing and little filtering giving freshness and purity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBerry-bright (sour-cherry, barberry) smoky-spiced red floral tea, freshened with blossom and carpasso. The palate is easy, light and savoury, with great balance. The tannin is just ripe and light, almost a line or thread through the gentle fruit jelly glycerol up front, yielding to soil-fattened acidity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643851142,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimaromencia.gif?v=1595908118"},{"product_id":"descendientes-de-j-palacios-djp-la-faraona-single-vineyard-mencia","title":"'La Faraona' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnly strict allocations of this wine enter Australia, please email us for an expression of interest. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaraona is single parcel within the Paraje of el Ferro, on a tectonic-volcanic\u003cbr\u003efault and laden with nuclear minerals. With its shallow basalt bedrock, La\u003cbr\u003eFaraona is the highest hill in Corullon, ranging from 855 metres at the bottom\u003cbr\u003eof the vineyard to 975 metres at the top. Very steep, south-east facing, planted\u003cbr\u003eto 65 year old vines which struggle in just 30cm of (volcanic basalt, titanium\u003cbr\u003eetc) soil and with just the morning sun for succour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrey and pale brown slate with quartz. Only worked (tilled by mule) one year in three. It was 50% Palomino when Ricardo and Alvaro purchased it, but this rogue variety is now just a trace along with a little Alicante Bouchet in field blend. Fermented in new 600l French oak, unfiltered, with total production of up to 2 barrels. In 2009, they had to cooper a special ¼ barrel to approximate a second barrel after a full first barrique!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVegetal as always, spicy and very mineral. There is a dominant sense of 'Terroso' all-around earthiness radish, beets, pomegranate affect a bright, rich, fruity, earthy wine with gentle tannin flow lit up with spice and minerals.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Descendientes_de_J_Palacios_DJP_Bierzo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Descendientes de J. 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There’s about 1% of Alicante Bouchet field-blended in the Mencia, which has the longest sun exposure of the three single sites. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarnet spices, potash, rosehip and lilac florals on the nose. The palate is\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eliquorous - oozing red fruit, but has good grip and lovely run in the mouth thanks to perfectly expressed sweet grape pip tannins.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Descendientes_de_J_Palacios_DJP_Bierzo_49499b56-bc02-4ff6-bcea-bb0e98776cab.pdf?v=1595997133\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Descendientes de J. 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Fermented in small open wooden vats (old 1200 litre foudre), aged 14 months in new French barriques.\u003cbr\u003eUnfiltered; production total: 8 barrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVibrant, spicy and purple with lovely herb-floral countryside smells, and a juicy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003epalate marked by gravelly soil and piquantly spiced. Highly perfumed fruit is filled with musky roses and an incredible tangle of herbs and balsams.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Descendientes_de_J_Palacios_DJP_Bierzo_49499b56-bc02-4ff6-bcea-bb0e98776cab.pdf?v=1595997133\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Descendientes de J. 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About 50% of stems are retained, with just a little, gentle pigeage; fermentation and maceration go for a little more than two months. No pumping, no filtering or fining. Contains traces of white from field blends including Palomino, Godello and Valenciana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBalsamic herbs and violets ring out over red-blue fruits. The wine is elegant, definitively Atlantic with great length. The cold sensations are relieved by sweet spices and deep earthiness. There is a clear sense of cold in the damp mountain soil aromas, from which rise a ‘spring-like’ awakening, with blossom smells, mint and verbena and an electric mineral tingle emerging. Tannins are beautiful and run the show in the mouth, full and deep, softly, earthily coating, then coaxing, engendering a slow, low outward release promising a long developmental future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Descendientes_de_J_Palacios_DJP_Bierzo_49499b56-bc02-4ff6-bcea-bb0e98776cab.pdf?v=1595997133\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Descendientes de J. 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Very gently pressed, then aged 6 months in foudre and another 12 months in French barricas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe earthiest of Pedro’s single vineyards, Meixeman is freshened and lifted by a steely slate rim. The nose is wild with earth, tobacco, forest floor, autumnal undergrowth. Heather, leather, a mineral pulse. Tastes of wild red and black berries, smoked boughs, balsam, and mountain herb, with a typical Guímaro agridulce (sweet-and-sour) touch. Built on solid, leathery tannins, this sits deeper than its sisters, with lively spice freshness at the rim and darting minerals to finish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643851910,"sku":"","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimaromeixman.gif?v=1595908279"},{"product_id":"descendientes-de-j-palacios-djp-petalos-mencia","title":"'P\u0026eacute;talos' Menc\u0026iacute;a 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003ePétalos is the regional expression of Mencias from Bierzo. It’s mainly mountain mineral material from Corullon fruit (including de-classified material from the single vineyards), plus 20% high quality gear from clay hill-slope sites below Corullon. Aged 12 months in large older French oak (1-6 years old), it’s a great, accessible encapsulation of the DJP Mencia package. It is drawn from nearly 900 plots in the region - 200 owned by Ricardo and Alvaro, and the rest leased from 175 growers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGently made in order to preserve acidity (the first and last consideration when handling Mencia), there are 5 days of gentle pigeage, with little pumping over. Depending on the year, DJP retain as much as 50% of the stems if they are suitably ripe. Maceration takes place for a month or so in a very cool cellar, with malo in tank before ageing in barrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePetalos leads with lashings of complex florals: field herb, dried sage, red lavender, violet, pepper tree and rose. There’s fresh clay dirt, lissom red plum and sour cherry fruits: earthy and bright, it sums Mencia and Bierzo perfectly. The palate has nicely moderated fruit plushness in a choc-blackberry register. Petalos is soft, open, round, pretty and fresh with nice slick-but-earthy tannins and smoky minerals.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Descendientes_de_J_Palacios_DJP_Bierzo_49499b56-bc02-4ff6-bcea-bb0e98776cab.pdf?v=1595997133\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Descendientes de J. Palacios (DJP)","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643852550,"sku":"","price":66.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/djppetalos2017.gif?v=1565325817"},{"product_id":"guimaro-finca-pombeiras-single-vineyard-mencia","title":"'Finca Pombeiras' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003ePombeiras is the coolest climate single site - 70-year-old vines planted on granite and quartz over pizzara, south-east facing to the rising sun. Fermented in large 20-year-old 'Cuba' French oak with 10% stems, all whole bunches, for 60 days, then aged 10 months in 5-year-old 500l French barrels. Pombeiras means 'pigeons'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePombeiras faces Finca Capeliños, 500 metres away over a hillside blind. Both share Mencía's classical rose thorn, soy and blood tells and the shiny dark-but-fresh mineral thread given by Ribeira Sacra's brown-black schist. But they are wines of considerable terroir-gifted contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis smells impossibly of time travel - weightless yet effortlessly vast. A constellation of spices weave through a cloud of savoury perfume, in a wine of majestic, elegant structure, free of glycerol and delicately bitter. Wild cherry, hibiscus, pomegranate, wild peppercorns and an umami hit. Ultra-fine tannin yields satin in a palate of grace, purity and elegance. Delicate and infinite, a wine of great poise and class. Incredible. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643853382,"sku":"","price":210.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimaropombeiras.gif?v=1595908298"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-as-caborcas-single-vineyard-mencia","title":"'As Caborcas' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeathery balsamic country characters run through almost boysenberry fruit richness, cut with bright spicily-acid little red stone fruits, with the fresh clean mineral rockiness of the granite in and under and it's truly a wine of its countryside more so than something you would experience or describe through fruit descriptors as such. The palate is magnificently formed almost mid-weight, it radiates in all directions with utmost deftness. Lingering spices run through fine, spritely water-spray-delicate, giving a sourberry thrill which is both determining and delicate, and crunchy-fine tannins are lined up into a guiderail (without knowing they've been corralled) and those little round purply-tart fruits just roll along and on ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Valdeorras_9864dceb-1f52-4642-a373-5f0f798f44b4.pdf?v=1596336953\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643855430,"sku":"","price":305.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/As_Caborcas_2015.jpg?v=1548222798"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-falcoeira-single-vineyard-mencia","title":"'Falcoeira' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eFalcoeira is an ancient vineyard whose terraces were established by the Romans 2000 years ago, abandoned after phylloxera. Described by Telmo as producing “wine with two balls”, it’s a hot, steep, south-facing, slope and is hell in summer (up to 55 degrees Celsius. There are 2.75 hectares, of which 1.9 were re-planted in 2009. It’s a predominately red grape vineyard (0.4 hectares of Godello), planted to a mix of 70% Mencia, with Merenzao, Garnacha Tintorera, Caiño, Souson and others. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFalcoeira is worked by horse and has virtually no soil, as such: a crew of 5 workers can only plant 500 vines\/year by hand in the stone (granite, with a little quartz and clay). Winemaking is simple, as with As Caborcas, always looking to promote freshness and harness the expression of site. ‘A Capilla’ means facing to the chapel, referring to the ancient church below the village of Santa Cruz at the southern end of the valley. A Capilla also refers to the lower section of Falcoreira, in particular – historically where the best wines of the valley came from. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Intensely mineral with a deep driving ironstone line: the nose takes you all the way in - Jules Verne deep. Along the way, bracken, ripe orange rind, moss and soft velveteen red fruit radiate. Round and nearly mid-weight, it fans out gently over the journey, sweetly vegetal fruit flowing over rich, plush granite-lined tannins towards an arrowhead finish. The amazing ‘tannin’ line is a thread emanating from the rock and earth of the place. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Valdeorras_9864dceb-1f52-4642-a373-5f0f798f44b4.pdf?v=1596336953\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643856454,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Falcoeira_2015.jpg?v=1548222016"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-gaba-do-xil-mencia","title":"'Gaba do Xil' Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wine is close to definitive of Mencia’s best attributes. Valdeorras is possibly the perfect natural place for Mencia – enough solar energy to ripen tannin, but cool enough to preserve its scant natural acid reserves, with line, crunch and nerve from the granite. Gaba Mencia is unwooded and barely handled, with a great harmony of fruit, earth and the countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGaba is a wine of soft red fruit alive with granite and herbs, arranged around gentle fruit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003etannin and a herb-acid tang. The nose is roasted meat, rhurbarb, fennel, white\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003estrawberry, thyme; shining red fruit in a pastoral setting, aromatic bitters, a touch of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ebrush. Sweet and sour agrodulce bifolds off a fleshily vegetal palate, nicely rounded in the\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003emiddle, gently radiating down and out to all parts of the mouth. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Valdeorras_6b0a75c7-a50b-4438-9ce0-a65190580aba.pdf?v=1663647560\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643857414,"sku":"","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/GABA_Mencia_2020_web_image.jpg?v=1722923730"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-gago-tinta-de-toro","title":"'Gago' Tinta de Toro 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vibrant, gently earthy wine, Gago is slick and polished, extremely well-organised, gently oaked. Organically grown fruit is selected from parcels grown at Villanueva and Valdefincas. Fermentation is in medium-sized stainless steel Tiñas and clean old oak vats. The wine is aged around 18 months in relatively neutral French oak 225 and 600 litre barrels. Beautifully made, with great finesse and excellent integration, unifying slick fruit and Toro earthiness via lovely, typical Toro nutty tannins, Gago begs for at least 3 years' cellaring to allow regional perfume, earth, and all the many layers of complexity to really express.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack cherry, cassis and blue floral primary aromas are gorgeously smooth, smudged to interest with touches of game, truffle and chocolate, clove and soft dark wood spice. Silky dark, spicy fruit in the mouth is vegetal and lush, streaked with smoked heather and earthy minerals. A lively Toro-typical nutty acid-tannin structure affects a fresh, lively drink with good concentration of silky dark, spicy fruit. Elegant, with a lovely long line and terrific perfume release at end.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Tintas_de_Toro_-_Dehesa_Gago_Gago_and_Pago_la_Jara_765f6af0-f474-4ffc-bbed-8f7e065eea6c.pdf?v=1596337016\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643861126,"sku":"","price":92.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Gago_2014.jpg?v=1548222876"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-las-beatas-single-vineyard","title":"'Las Beatas' Single Vineyard 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eLas Beatas has extremely cold sandy soil facing north-west. There are eleven grape varieties grown on eight terrace levels, predominantly Tempranillo with 30% Garnacha, some Viura and traces of other rare, unidentified cultivars. The vines are densely planted and hand-worked. Purchased as an abandoned place in 1998, Las Beatas has 0.8 hectares of very old field blend material. The rest are young vines massale-selected from the original genetics of the place. In 2011 a small harvest of the old gear and about 10% of the young plantings yielded 500 bottles; in 2012, 1500 bottles were produced from the old vines plus about 20% of the young vines. Each year since, increasing proportions of young vines bearing the genetic heritage of las Beatas are included in the finished wine. Las Beatas is made and aged in 1200 litre French foudre. One day, this will be known as the Glory of Rioja.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJuniper, sage, black thyme and piney-fennel balsam run through bright, clear, fluid tiny red cherries with a licorice fleck. Herbal ‘dark’ tones are delicate touches, and the caress of cold white dirt gives gentle edge grip. Juicy, spicy and fine with heaps of space, it’s a wine of utmost delicacy. A touch of sweet-and-sour interplay expresses through a ‘click’ of fantastic fruit tannin running low in the mouth, inseparable from an ultra-fine, long thread of natural acid. With a lovely grip-release movement through the palate, it uses all of the mouth without cramming anywhere. Wonderful.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643861894,"sku":"","price":1150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Las_Beatas_2015.jpg?v=1548222423"},{"product_id":"palacios-remondo-la-vendima-garnacha-tempranillo","title":"'La Vendimia' Garnacha-Tempranillo 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unfiltered, organic, 'generic' Rioja, blending the south and north shores of the Rio Ebro: Garnacha from Monte Yerga and Tempranillo from Haro. Álvaro's precise-yet-barely-tutored wines gently but unfailingly reflect the earth in which they grow, and this hallmark is seen in spades here. 4 months in barrique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmelling for all the world like an apple orchard in blossom (flowers, leaves and tree boughs), the Garnacha in this is really pretty, and marries beautifully to the grey-clay smell of the damp soils up under Mount Yerga out back of Alfaro. Crisper in tannin-line than unwooded Tempranillos such as LZ, and with a more pronounced, broader natural acidity, it's a very lively and linear Garnacha-based blend. Kee-runch! Both bright and earthily-fruited, this juicy little wine balances neat, modest tannins and soft red dirt acidity. Mid-weight at most, round and complete, gently spiced and perfumed, it's classy and delicious.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Palacios_Remondo_a8237473-efe9-4b78-b55b-c9fc33f7cb13.pdf?v=1596331224\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Palacios Remondo","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643861958,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/palaciosremondolavendimia.gif?v=1553148560"},{"product_id":"palacios-remondo-propiedad-garnacha","title":"'Propiedad' Garnacha 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e95% Garnacha with a bit of Monastrell and field blend Viura, this is a blend of five old vineyards at 600+m altitude under Mt Yerga. Las Mulgas is the oldest of these, at 90 years old and 650m. The others are Corral de Serrano, Valviejo, Valfrio, and Valmira. These vineyards represent the 'limit' for Garnacha - any higher than this and you get unripe, thin-skinned Garnachas. Fermented in Bocoi (foudre), aged in 650l French oak and bottled unfiltered. From 2010, Propiedad is the reward of a decade's intense labour by Álvaro in returning the Alfaro vineyards to their 'natural' viticultural direction: organically-grown bush-vines of Yerga's heritage Garnacha genetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMore earth, woody heart vine perfume overlays over lipstick savoury red fruit with radish and herbal tang. Deep vine wood with spice, earth, herb, spice and space. Full of light and air, vibrant with soft fresh acidity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Palacios_Remondo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Palacios Remondo","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643862022,"sku":"","price":141.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/palaciosremondopropiedad.gif?v=1553148709"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-dehesa-gago-tinta-de-toro","title":"'Dehesa Gago' Tinta de Toro 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eDehesa Gago was one of Telmo and Pablo’s first wines labels. In fact, the first vintage of Dehesa Gago (1999) sported the full G label now worn by big sister Gago. The ‘Baby G’ label came into being for the 2000, release when Gago 1999 joined the fold.\u003cbr\u003eMost of the fruit for Dehesa Gago comes from chalky limestone soils filled out with (really) big pebbles near Morales de Toro, north of Toro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine is fermented in large concrete, steel and old oak vats, and aged unwooded in stainless steel, undergoing a couple of rackings to mature the wine in air. With no additions save for a necessary touch of sulphur at bottling, Dehesa Gago is an utterly natural expression of local fruit structured by natural grape tannin and acid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlac̩e cherry and dark fruit tea, with touches of smoky brush, pepperminty and whole-of-orchard balsalm and florals. There's husky spice, with the powerful silt-clay soils of Toro are in clear evidence underneath. All lovely and exuberant, but the real point with this wine is just how delicate and pared back it is compared to the Toro norm. Unwooded (aged in concrete and old wood vats) it's not fruity, not raw, not heavy, just a beautifully moderated fruit riot organised on glorious, gravelly, grip-and-release fruit tannins. Simple and special, with spread and reach, never sweet, heavy nor lumpy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Tintas_de_Toro_-_Dehesa_Gago_Gago_and_Pago_la_Jara_765f6af0-f474-4ffc-bbed-8f7e065eea6c.pdf?v=1596337016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643862406,"sku":"","price":43.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Dehesa_Gago_2016.jpg?v=1548222839"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-lz","title":"'LZ' Tempranillo 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eLZ is a free-range expression via gravity and concrete. Un-oaked, juicy, deft, utterly typical of its place. Always wonderfully expressive of Lantziego’s cold clay dirt, LZ features crimson-spiced cranberry with rose petal florals and red lavender among plentiful herbs – pure smells of place. The palate is is built on a trademark fruit tannin natural acid twin-track. Simple and beautiful, with plenty of depth, spiced, earthily perfumed, ovoid, lissome and satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWonderfully expressive of the cold clay dirt of Lantziego with a burst of Crimson spices, flower petals and all of the herbs! Wonderfully focused without any creamy vanilla but with plenty of depth and deeply satisfying. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643864774,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/19-LZ.gif?v=1602474755"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-lanzaga","title":"'Lanzaga' Rioja de Pueblo Lantzeigo 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘el Monte’ at Lantziego is the ultimate meeting point of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Lanzaga is the gently-oaked big sister to LZ. It’s a village wine, combining 35 plots, handled separately and blended after selection. Aged a year or so: half the wine matures in relatively neutral 1500-2000 litre wood; the rest in a mix of 225 and 600 litre barrels (at most 10% new oak). A natural wine of the earth and mountain air. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA lively herbs-in-mountain-air, wafting red thyme, sage, lavender, wild-skinsy-pippy juniper and sloe (all are prolific on el Monte). Through these, staccato jolts of licorice, anise, electric red dirt, black pepper. It's deep and mineral with lots of bosky woodsy aromatics. The palate is open and richly expressive to start, and gathers tannin, acid and spice to a long, gathered, relaxed finish. Excellent vertical energy as well as structural line makes for a wine of great life, which journeys gravelly-silken. Licorice, dark mineral, red thyme. Anise drops on a cherry skin, the cherry’s on a rock. Sky above. Red dirt below. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643865670,"sku":"","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Lanzaga_2012.jpg?v=1548222296"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-la-estrada-single-vineyard","title":"'Estrada' Single Vineyard 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrganic and biodynamic, Estrada is a parcel of just 0.64 hectares at 610 metres altitude. She has very shallow soil of chalky clay, facing a cool northeast among forest and a multitude of local herbs. Estrada was planted in the 1940s to a bush-vine field blend of Tempranillo, Graciano and others. The wine was fermented with natural yeast in a large open oak cask, then aged around 15 months in foudre. Just over 1,000 bottles made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHerbal, elegant, classical and refined, red fruited with touches of anise, fennel herb and pepper. Great elegance, incredibly fine tannin and very pure Rioja-ness. Sweet, herb-saturated red cherry berry fruit, beautifully round and delicate, almost capering in the mouth with sour cherry acidity. The berries are sweet, the tannins are sweet, the acidity is sweet, and the wine, delicate, gently briary, round, energetic verging on electric, tangy and savoury and entirely not sweet, but joyously un-strict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643866182,"sku":"","price":325.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/16telmolaestrada.gif?v=1566265920"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-corriente-vino-de-cosecheros","title":"'Corriente' Vino de Cosecheros 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of last century, cosecheros or growers from Rioja Alavesa usually produced a village wine called ‘Rioja Corriente’: common wine, young but honest, for everyday drinking, leaving ‘Riojas Selectos’ for special occasions. The idea of such a wine held great appeal to Telmo and Pablo, who now reproduce the style with bush-vine fruit from six such cosecheros in the Lantziego municipality. Many of these are old vineyards with a natural mix of Garnacha, Graciano and even some white vines among the Tempranillo. Corriente is made in raw concrete and aged in a mixed regime of barrel and foudre for a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe cold clay soil of Lantziego speaks very clearly on the nose, partnered by equally typical 'red heather' smells of the locale (thyme, lavender and more). No fruit bomb, it's a countryside wine, with meat, cherry, mint and licorice all in a swirl. There are hints of sweet spice and it has great freshness. The palate opens with succulence, juicy and laden with red berries, then glides out and down into the mineral-flecked beauty of gravelly natural fruit tannin, and closes out with perfectly judged astringency.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643866758,"sku":"","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Corriente_2016.jpg?v=1548222703"},{"product_id":"palacios-remondo-la-montesa-garnacha","title":"'La Montesa' Garnacha 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa Montesa is the Palacios' name for the shovel-nosed hill-slope above the town of Alfaro from which their main wines are selected. Three passes yield the Viura blanco, the joven tinto 'La Vendimia' and its big sister 'La Montesa' which is aged in older French oak. It's just a little 'more' than La Vendimia...more savoury, more mineral, more structured, yet still extremely gentle and open-weave. It's all things to all people - affordable to quaff, stylish enough for a dinner party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine is aged a year in new to 4 year-old barriques. These are extremely clean, with all wood in Palacios Remondo’s bodega washed in hot water, rinsed in cold, then re-washed with jets of ozone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe wine has great phenolic maturity and a salty herb-sour edge to intense almost tarry dark Garnacha. The palate has fantastic acid-tannin reach which drags clay spice and floral red berry along and along and along... It's long, complex, fresh, vital and complete.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Palacios_Remondo_a8237473-efe9-4b78-b55b-c9fc33f7cb13.pdf?v=1596331224\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Palacios Remondo","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643868422,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/palaciosremondolamontesa.gif?v=1553148647"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-pago-la-jara-tinta-de-toro","title":"'Pago la Jara' Tinta de Toro 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful amalgam of fruit tannin and very fine oak, spice and acid, the core of this wine is Toro earth given highly structured form in delicate winemaking hands. Pago la Jara has complex fruits in a dazzlingly perfumed, rather than sugar-leaden form. All is run through with lashings of anise, a tease of cacao and pretty red flowers. Both mineral and floral, melting tannins give structure and movement to the palate. PLJ signs off with an expressive perfume flourish at the back, and is a great example of a full wine which achieves ease and release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Tintas_de_Toro_-_Dehesa_Gago_Gago_and_Pago_la_Jara_765f6af0-f474-4ffc-bbed-8f7e065eea6c.pdf?v=1596337016f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643868998,"sku":"","price":157.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Pago_la_Jara.jpg?v=1548223060"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-el-velado-single-vineyard","title":"'El Velado' Single Vineyard 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eVelado typifies the unique meeting of Atlantic and Mediterranean at el Monte above Lantziego, and was the vineyard which started Telmo and Pablo’s love of and commitment to this pueblo of 600 villagers. Velado is an old, beautiful vineyard: it faces south-west, and while a very cool mountain site, has a relatively warm exposure compared to Estrada, and is a Garnacha-predominant field blend (40- 50%) with Tempranillo and other ancient local varieties, including whites. Planted in the 1930s at 620 metres, on infertile soils with very little moisture retention, it’s a vineyard of 0.92 hectares. A natural yeast fermentation took place in an open oak cask and the wine matured 16 months in large oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtterly brilliant electric garnet to look at. The aromas swirl and flow - spicy purple lashed with pine, the air in a mountain forest, cool earth-scented. The mouthfeel is incredible, delicate, fluid, pure, unfettered. It slows like a river on a back palate beach of horizontal tannin, fans out in a delta, slows but never stops, releases. Perfume recirculates from tannin held in cheeks, on tongue, and radiates to the roof of mouth. It’s not warm, nor garnacha-ey as such, but you can feel the quiet tug of the Mediterranean. All the while, the wine has a brilliance and energy that is pure cold-soil Rioja. It’s Rioja, son, but not as we know it!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643869574,"sku":"","price":330.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/16telmoelvelado.gif?v=1566265897"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-tabuerniga-single-vineyard","title":"'Tabuerniga' Single Vineyard 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eWow! A nose of incredible depth quintessentially Rioja, it draws you in and down, vortex-like. Clay, red berry and black lavender and (wild raspberries on\/and the bush), and a host of herbs waft up from the incredible depth of smell here. Not merely regal but outright imperial in register, without any puffed chest self-awareness. Soft and delta-reach fruit slows down on a shore of deep fine tannin prickled with extremely flavoursome (herb and spice countryside tasting) acidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Riojas_compressed_dd9980ad-ffd9-4726-b303-67728e5812a8.pdf?v=1596336999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643870086,"sku":"","price":320.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Tabuerniga_2015.jpg?v=1548222515"},{"product_id":"remelluri-gran-reserva","title":"'La Granja' Tempranillo 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003e85% Tempranillo or so with Garnacha, Graciano and traces of Moscatel, Viura and 'Malvasia'. Spontaneous wild yeast fermentation in large oak vats precedes 27 months in oak, with 7 years of total bodega maturation before release into the market. As with the Reserva, nowadays the Remelluri reds are made in a mix of materials - larger foudre as well as barrique, but also cement and even demijohns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn incredible, wafting nose: a potpourri of wild mountain herbs, spiced florals, and a gnurl of wizened tobacco dissolve into a delightful purple liquor. The mouth is a glacier of wonderful tannin, a tongue along my tongue, the wine mortised within, easily fit. The tannin radiates its wine, a slow and discreet movement, a reveal. At the end, the taste of a land.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Remelluri_409aa577-8c82-46f8-a25e-d12e6259c535.pdf?v=1596334066\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Remelluri","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643870534,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Granja_Remelluri_Gran_Reserva_2010.jpg?v=1548304661"},{"product_id":"remelluri-labastida-village-wine","title":"Lindes de Remelluri 'Labastida' village wine 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabastida is nestled beneath the Sierra Cantabria, with cold soils in tight valleys marked by the Atlantic. The Labastida wine is concentrated, sweet and slick with nice lines - a cool-soils wine of inky-blue fruits, glossily sweetseeded and creamy. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFermentation takes place in 5,000L old French vats, then 12 months' maturation in old French barriques\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe steep, enclosed valley at Labastida nestled under the Cantabrias yields a structured, elegant but soft, fluid wine. Labastida is vibrant and satin-spiced, sweet-pipped red with florals afore and after (red florals not unlike a Ted Leamon wine). Red cherry, earth, field herbs, sweet pips, crunchy, concentrated elegance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Remelluri_409aa577-8c82-46f8-a25e-d12e6259c535.pdf?v=1596334066\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Remelluri","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643870598,"sku":"","price":66.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Lindes_Labastida_2013.jpg?v=1548304588"},{"product_id":"remelluri-san-vicente-village-wine","title":"Lindes de Remelluri 'San Vicente' Village Wine 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe village of San Vicente de Sonsierra has a warmer aspect and richer ferrous red soils, with its vineyards out in the valley and open to the Mediterranean. Lindes de San Vicente is a notably more open and earthy wine, with foursquare tannins, nicely blocky compared to the slink of Labastida\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eFermentation takes place in 5,000L old French vats, then 12 months' maturation in old French barriques\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen and spicy, more volatile, earthy and really delicious. You can feel how open the valley is here, with warmer and redder soils open to the Mediterranean below San Vicente on its hilltop. Open, spicy, warm and earthy, really delicious countryside wine. The palate has a touch of chocolate in its distinct earthiness, expressed through a distinctly granular tannin profile.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Remelluri_409aa577-8c82-46f8-a25e-d12e6259c535.pdf?v=1596334066\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Remelluri","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643870662,"sku":"","price":66.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Lindes_San_Vicente_2013.jpg?v=1548304614"},{"product_id":"remelluri-reserva","title":"Reserva 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday's Remelluri Reservas are consistent with those of the past: refined, elegant, and not much marked by racking - all oak influence is clean and meaningful. However, since Telmo's return it's a noticeably brighter, marginally richer, fabulously brambly red berry wine with wonderful florals. Tempranillo predominantly, with a little Graciano and Garnacha, plus field blend Viura and 'Malvasia'. Fermentation is in large conical oak vats, with pipeage. Malo is mainly in vats, with a portion in barrique. New oak ageing is reserved for the most structured fruit; most gains secondary character from 'oxidative' ageing in older wood. After about 17 months ageing, it's bottled unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a ground-breaker - a quantum shift in Remelluri. Lovely framing tannin is filled with purply mountain herbs and carriers hints of pepper, toasted lavender, sage, thyme. Fluidity inheres in and around a camshaft of tannin which quite literally gears the wine. Compelling!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Remelluri_409aa577-8c82-46f8-a25e-d12e6259c535.pdf?v=1596334066\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Remelluri","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643870726,"sku":"","price":140.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Remelluri_Reserva_2011.jpg?v=1548304677"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-mr-moscatel-500ml","title":"'MR' Moscatel 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eMountain wine' - grown 900 metres up on very steep, schist slopes. Fabulously pure, intense and long. Golden, brimming with blossom, edged with marmalade underpinned by fresh honeycomb and shale minerality. Full and soft with fine acDO Sierra De Malagaid providing drying cut at the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Malaga_Moscatels_-_Mountain_Blanco_MR_Molino_Real_c9c075ea-a8b4-4525-b24d-b12fab207b16.pdf?v=1596337029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"500ml","offer_id":49643880070,"sku":"","price":76.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/MR_2014.jpg?v=1548222066"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-molino-real-moscatel-500ml","title":"'Molino Real' Moscatel 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the most concentrated old vine Moscatel fruit, and has swallowed 20 months in new French barriques. The fruit is so good that the wood is virtually undetectable, save for an extra dimension of spicy, savoury structure tucked into the fruit richness. This is a cult wine, on very strict allocation in Australia. In Spain, it is invariably awarded best sweet wine in the nation, and ranks among the finest, most revered of all wines in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Malaga_Moscatels_-_Mountain_Blanco_MR_Molino_Real_c9c075ea-a8b4-4525-b24d-b12fab207b16.pdf?v=1596337029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"500ml","offer_id":49643880198,"sku":"","price":158.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Molino_Real_2014.jpg?v=1548222473"},{"product_id":"remelluri-blanco","title":"Blanco 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 9-varietal Atlantic Mountain wine, reflecting the thrillingly cold and herb-laden soils of Remelluri's highest part. Telmo's aspiration was to show the countryside...the multi-varietal composition, accompanied by multiple fermentations in different technologies simply allows grapes and winemaking to be cancelled out in favour of the telling of the land. Various sizes and ages of oak, as well as stainless steel and concrete reflect a theory of 'disappearing winemaking' which Telmo has deployed to astonishing results in Rueda and Valdeorras whites (and increasingly in his reds), but the idea began with Remelluri Blanco. The whites are gently pressed, fermented with natural yeast, aged about 12 months, firstly in wood then rested in concrete before assemblage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA twitch of herbs in a field of golden cereal, with barley water's savoury richness and fine earthiness. Smooth, super-characterful. With good weight and affecting texture, it's a wine of tremendous nerve and run.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Remelluri_409aa577-8c82-46f8-a25e-d12e6259c535.pdf?v=1596334066\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Remelluri","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643887430,"sku":"","price":248.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Remelluri_Blanco_2014.jpg?v=1548304639"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-el-transistor-verdejo","title":"'El Transistor' Verdejo 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eEl Transistor is selected from two old patches of pre-phylloxera dry-grown bush vine. Verdejo which produce deeply flavoured, textural wines. One parcel is the classical stony clay soil of Rueda’s plateau, the other is sandy soil down near the river. Why the name El Transistor? Telmo’s Verdejo vines are plagued by wild boars (see the back label) coming out of the adjacent forest to feast at night on the near-ripe tangy green-gold fruit. To ward of the pigs, Telmo and Pablo decided to place a radio in the vineyard, banging out a truly Spanish transistor racket - odd, but effective!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven more unique with this wine is Telmo’s theory of ‘disappearing winemaking’. Telmo and Pablo have, of course, performed acts of ‘winemaking’ to achieve a Verdejo as textural as this, however they are very keen not to put a winemaker’s stamp on - to leave the wine un-signed. To achieve this, fermentation and ageing are in a variety of stainless steel, amphorae, concrete vats, concrete BD eggs and French oak (new and old, large and small). Each influences the wine but all cancel one another out in terms of legible artefact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'El Transistor’ is luscious, voluminous, spicy and textural. Rounded with lovely texture, it’s a very calm and assured wine. El Transistor smells and tastes of golden apples, apple cucumber, custard apple and baked quince with a squirt of lemon and a lash of sand reflecting the Rueda soil. There’s a beautiful earthiness throughout, it’s golden and generous, cut by absolutely fabulous tart, spicy fruit-skin extract. Full, rich and round, it also goes on and on and on.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Ruedas_-_Basa_and_el_Transistor_7c9864f1-d87f-44ba-ab05-beaa4d34b677.pdf?v=1596336971\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643888134,"sku":"","price":91.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/El_Transistor_2016.jpg?v=1548222101"},{"product_id":"telmo-rodriguez-basa-verdejo","title":"'Basa' Verdejo 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eBasa is based on organically-grown 40 year-old bush-vines grown at 750 metres altitude, and cropped at about 1kg\/vine. Basa is all about perfectly balanced sugar\/acid\/tannin in the berry which is then carefully nurtured into balanced wine, with no additions in the winery (save for a small amount of necessary sulphur at bottling). A great all-rounder with food, Basa’s primary attribute is natural acidity, so it doesn’t get cloying, metallic or soapy … no matter how many bottles are gone through! Basa is a not-so-fruity Rueda Verdejo with 20% Viura in the mix finessing extra palate nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerdejo, like Godello (and some folks do confuse the two) tends to be front-palate heavy and a bit vague at the back; Viura, while relatively characterless is an excellent natural dilutant and serves to bring Verdejo down and stretch it out. Basa used to feature a little Sauvignon Blanc in the blend to add extra length, nerve and snap to the finish; however, the lessons learned from big sister ‘el Transistor’ \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thespanishacquisition.com\/products\/telmo-rodriguez-el-transistor-verdejo\"\u003e(see here)\u003c\/a\u003e have helped Telmo and Pablo texture and lengthen the Verdejo to the point where the Sauvignon in blend is not necessary. Basa is fermented in a mix of large wooden vats, concrete and stainless steel tanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow without any Sauvignon, this gorgeous dry-grown Verdejo is blended with a little of floral Viura to lighten and lift. Basa is lovely, uncomplicated, and texturally pleasing. Basa smells of feijoa and fresh-cut pear with the faintest tropical wash and a gentle green herb tuck. The palate is mid-weight and of good length with a great mix of fruit flesh, earth and gently nutty tannin running out on natural acid. Textured without overt fructose, it’s savoury, with minerality and good length, and perfectly blends richness and line.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Ruedas_-_Basa_and_el_Transistor_7c9864f1-d87f-44ba-ab05-beaa4d34b677.pdf?v=1596336971\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":49643888198,"sku":"","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/Basa_2017.jpg?v=1548222230"},{"product_id":"les-aubaguetes-garnatxa-blend","title":"'Les Aubaguetes' Garnatxa blend 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a marvellous vineyard in the village of Bellmunt, an old mining town on the southern border of Priorat. Aubaguetes faces north across a valley to its sister over the way, Finca Dofi in Gratallops. It’s a 115 year-old patch planted to its own Garnacha genetics with 20% Samso and some white grapes, all ‘grown en costers’. The vineyard is dominated by blue mineral schist loaded with zinc, aluminium and granite, and contains a streak of ferrous clay too. It’s a small vineyard of 1.34 hectares, much of which remains unplanted since Priorat’s abandonment post-Civil War. Augabuetes is very steep, and ranges between 220 and 290 metres in altitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild, wild cherries and plums, massive balsamic complexity, violet, rose hip, blood range and cold dark tea, briars and an old cob tobacco pipe ... freshened by white wine-like acidity over very austere slate and citric acid. You can feel the wash of the cool sea breezes enjoyed by Aubaguetes – it’s extraordinarily lively, perfumed, lifted and glorious.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat_52ed9051-5999-446d-ad00-e65ac297b887.pdf?v=1595987697\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":16101656232038,"sku":"","price":1075.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalacioslesaubaguetes.gif?v=1553559933"},{"product_id":"camins-del-priorat-samso-garnatxa-mag","title":"'Camins del Priorat' Carinyena-Garnatxa 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Camins’ are the pathways of Priorat (in Castellano, ‘Caminos’), linking villages up and down the hillsides from valley floor to mountain top. The regional council has recently completed renovation of many old Camins, so one can now happily hike from place to place away from the motorways. Fond of a walk and a think, Álvaro named his entry-level release after these paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Camins del Priorat’ is a regional wine, taken from younger vines below the hilltop extremes, all throughout the hills and valleys along the pathways of Priorat. Typically, it’s about 2\/3 Garnacha and 1\/3 Samsó. The vineyards which give fruit for Camins signify a rebirth, with wonderful viticulture, great care and expense afforded to the project of re-planting the hills of Priorat with its own indigenous genetic Garnachas. De-stemmed, fermented in open concrete, wood and inox vats, and aged 8 months in larger used French oak. Flint, granite, almond, lavender, cherries, pomegranate and Mediterranean freshness – it’s Priorat Garnacha!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe joyous Priorat Garnacha tells of orange juice and ruby grapefruit perkiness are abundant, being the last note on the nose and the cheeriest aftertaste, leaving the wine fresh and vibrant on nose and in  mouth. Its darker elements are herbed and spiced, nutty tree wood, rose hip and parsnip, and ashy-earth. It’s both prettily-fruited and mineral-edged, with a deep, pure earthiness and fine, delicate tannin. Abundantly energetic and aflow with red florality in the mouth and on the nose, as per the label.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/alvaro_palacios_priorat.pdf?928\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Àlvaro Palacios","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":32132189814886,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/alvaropalacioscamins_674894e9-4d29-4236-bf52-a4ce49a4b086.gif?v=1554097148"},{"product_id":"o-diviso-single-vineyard-menc-iacute-a-2015","title":"'O Diviso' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis old site is 3 hectares north and north-west-facing at 450m altitude. Around a bend in Rio Bibei and thus across a ridge from As Caborcas and Falcoeira, it towers atop a valley on the other side of Santa Cruz. These are 2000 year-old terraces once subject to chemical viticulture, then abandoned. There are some old vines (about 0.5 hectares safe-keeping the genetics of this place), and substantial massale plantings have regenerated the entire vineyard with its own code. Below a ridge line bower of chesnuts ringing with bird-song, the vines grow in electrically perfumed cold air, filled with smells of lavender, mint and fern, chervil, broom and red parsley. ‘O Diviso’ is “the division”, and is the historical place name of this vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitter medicinal herbs (this little terrace is full of them) like the leanest of oldfashioneds, yield to a flush of red flowers, smoked canes and cherry pith fruitfulness nestled in deep-set granite. It’s wild and savoury, redolent with the purity of the mountain air in this remote valley. Steely, linear, sweet-and-sour a wine of very fine line and length and has delicately swishing fruit camisoling around the core.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Valdeorras_9864dceb-1f52-4642-a373-5f0f798f44b4.pdf?v=1596336953\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":27882393108582,"sku":"","price":223.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"pegaso-barrancos-de-pizzara-garnacha-2014","title":"'Pegaso Barrancos de Pizzara' Garnacha 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 'barranco' is a radical vineyard, and they really are: brown schist, ravine-steep, ultra-high-altitude, no 'soil'to speak of, and quite minerally with lots of quartz. Fruit from old, niggardly centenarian bush-vines, now farmed biodynamically, is now gently handled in large older French oak and concrete eggs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe nose is a mix of glorious red fruits (wild cherry, leathery plum, boysenberry), with small flowers, angelica, the bitter oils of herbaceous scrub, thyme honey and a cold metal minerality from the slate soil. Despite great vine age and fruit concentration, Pegaso smells fresh and lively with great balance between red fruit sweetness and savoury earth aspects. The balsam and mineral smells of place inflect the mouth too, along with a peeled orange citric acid thrill. The palate is textured by a thread of beautifully mature tannin, tingling with minerals and vibrant with bright acidity. The structure of the savoury mid-palate releases to a juicy ease at end, lingering wonderfully and releasing with a perfume waft. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Telmo_Rodriguez_Cebreros_Sierra_de_Gredos_Garnachas_Pegaso_Pizzara_Granito_da4fd49f-f18f-45f3-97d9-402af4571f0d.pdf?v=1596337042\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Telmo Rodr\u0026iacute;guez","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":29505784479846,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/telmopegasopizz_99c6648b-814c-4f1b-88a6-ec811eab2945.gif?v=1566515041"},{"product_id":"guimaro-camino-real","title":"'Cami\u0026ntilde;o Real' Menc\u0026iacute;a de Amandi 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the estate blend of Guímaro’s soils in the Amandi zone, this time with a little oak ageing. Summing six hectares, it’s effectively a field blend, about 85% old vine Mencía co-picked with Merenzao, Mouratón, Brancellao, Caiño, Sousón, and Alicante Bouschet. Like the Joven, it sums slate, granite, quartz and sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-picked fruit (40% whole bunches) spontaneously ferments in open old oak vats for 40 days. Half the wine spends seven months in old French oak vats followed by four months in old barricas, the other half swaps vessels and ageing ratios. Bottled unfiltered, unfined. Camiño is the Galego variant of Camino in Castellano – its name is thus ‘The Royal Way’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCompared to its unwooded little sister, this is a little deeper and more bold, but still below mid-weight. It starts in a red fruit spectrum, but there’s darkness in the depths. Pomegranate, sour cherry, smoked thyme, forest bracken, mace, pepper pods. Typical to Guímaro wines, it has a lovely agridulce (sweet-sour) pulse. There’s some red earth as well as typical slatey mineral, and a waft of game, which deepens with time in the bottle. Classical Guímaro in its round, open presentation and structural harmony and delicate acid persistence. Pin-bone tannin organises brambly purple fruit with a hint of smoked berry towards a lip-smacking finish studded with aromatic bitters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":31575825743974,"sku":"","price":82.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimarocaminoreal.gif?v=1595907982"},{"product_id":"guimaro-a-ponte-mencia","title":"'A Ponte' Single Vineyard Menc\u0026iacute;a 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eA recently introduced wine (the inaugural vintage was 2015) from a very old plot above Finca Meixeman. In the late 2000s, Pedro re-planted this parcela to Mencía (30%) and 17.5% each of Sousón, Brancellao, Merenzao and Caiño on granite, slate and sand at 420-550m. Hand-harvested, spontaneously fermented whole clusters, 50 days maceration and 6 months resting on skins. Then ages a year in old 500L Burgundy barrels. No fining\/filtration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Literally, ethereal. You smell and sense fresh mountain air with an atlantic nibble. It’s floral-spicy and red fruited: red apples, hibiscus, cinnamon, ink and mace, wild blackberry, rhubarb and damson. There are minerals everywhere – the dark spicy density of slate, spritzed with the freshness of granite. The tannins are a tracery - glorious layers of fruit skin lining fleshy fruit, leading to a perfect bitter finish lit up with briars. Lively, expressive, delicate and incredibly inviting. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Guimaro_Master_note_compressed.pdf?v=1709011658\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gu\u0026iacute;maro","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":31997026664550,"sku":null,"price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/guimaroaponte.gif?v=1595908037"},{"product_id":"jose-gil-vino-de-pueblo-tempranillo-viura-san-vicente-2019","title":"Vino de Pueblo San Vicente 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis village wine is from a collection of vineyards in the highlands around San Vicente, at altitudes of 500m and above, from different sites and soils. Of San Vicente’s six valleys, all but la Rad figure. The composition is Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha and a little Viura. Manual harvest; destemmed; all the plots are made separately, then blended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter fermentation in the concrete cubes in Briones, 40% of the village blend lingers in concrete, while the balance has ten months of gentle ageing is in old 500L barrels in the medieval cellar of San Vicente’s Castle Davalillo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe whole orchard on display: wood, flowers and fruits of cherry, apple, boysenberry, plum, blackberry. Cut to shape by hyssop, juniper, dry brown spices, orchard bark. Savoury-juicy, open, perfumed, round. Gravel and iron soil nuance the satin fruit-tannin sumptuousness. A wine of great harmony and balance, and as it lingers, fruitfulness is beautifully trimmed by tannin to the finish where spice, bitters and easy nutty acid join in the violets-in-earth gorgeousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Jose_Gil_b3200209-bc60-4a6f-bcff-c73375a19de1.pdf?v=1682496547\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Jose Gil","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":39545981763686,"sku":null,"price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/VIN_aEDOS_DE_LA_BASTIDA_alta300ppp.jpg?v=1682496165"},{"product_id":"vino-de-parcela-camino-de-ribas","title":"Vino de parcela ‘Camino de Ribas’ 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn between Canoca and Bardallo is Camino de Ribas (in the hamlet of Rivas de Tesoro). This is the coldest and freshest valley, as the gap north towards the Toloño allows ingress of strong north winds from the Atlantic. Jose and Vicky work here with two parcels. The western side is a hectare they planted in 2016. Here are young vines of red and white Garnacha and some Moscatel, in sandy loam, with iron and chalk over sandstone bedrock. They also take some kilos from Jose’s parents’ plot, a 20 metre walk east across the access track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are 140yo bush vines of Garnacha and Tempranillo in pale sand at 610m surrounded by many scrubland grasses (lavender, thyme, rosemary…). The finished wine is 50% Tempranillo, 40% Garnacha and some Viura and other whites. Harvested by hand, 100% destemmed. Aged 10 months in 500L French oak in the castle cellar. Limited production: Australian allocation 30 bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eRedolent of cold earth, blue fruits filled with sweet spices and scrubby balsamics - juniper with its bitter back note, cinchona bark, sweet, floral fennel, thyme. Pomegranate seeds, raspberry and compote fruits. Sandstone pebbles give a fine grit, the feeling of being down in the riverbed. La Concova flows out on a line, with gloriously sweet-spiced, chalk-flecked, nutty tannins. Fluidity from perfectly ripened seeds, laced with an astringent stretch from all the herbal-balsamic action. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Jose_Gil_b3200209-bc60-4a6f-bcff-c73375a19de1.pdf?v=1682496547\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jose Gil","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":39896252842086,"sku":null,"price":290.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/CAMINO_DE_RIBAS_alta300ppp.jpg?v=1665370062"},{"product_id":"vino-de-parcela-el-bardallo","title":"Vino de parcela 'el Bardallo' 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eParaje el Bardallo is North-west of San Vicente, well on the way to neighbouring village, Labastida, underneath the legendary Remelluri estate. It’s planted to dry-grown bush-vines en vaso, about 40 years old, at 515m, with northeast orientation and calcareous soil. Bardallo is home to delicate, vertical wines; the fruit here is blue note, fluid and quite spicy. Tempranillo with a small percentage of Viura. Harvested by hand, 100% destemmed. Fermented in concrete, aged 10 months in 500L French oak. Limited production: Australian allocation 24 bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis parcel has the darkest fruits among the single vineyards and is the most primary and fruitful of them. Floral, densely meaty but fluid, plummy and round with lots of ripe skins, a touch of tobacco and a lash of medicinal wood bitters. Regally earthy in deep purple tones, it literally spangles with mineral detail, like a sequin dress. Within the tannins, you find both chalkiness and juiciness, performing a density-relief moebusstrip double act. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Jose_Gil_b3200209-bc60-4a6f-bcff-c73375a19de1.pdf?v=1682496547\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Jose Gil","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":39896256741478,"sku":null,"price":208.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/EL_BARDALLO_alta300ppp.jpg?v=1665370287"},{"product_id":"vino-de-parcela-la-canoca-2020","title":"Vino de parcela ‘la Canoca’ 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorth-east of town, on the cold slopes up towards the Sierra de Toloño, is Valle la Canoca, formed by little Rio la Canoca. Jose and Vicky have a parcel in the top stretch of this valley, above 600m, yielding red fruited, floral wines. The soil of la Canoca is silt with a high percentage of limestone, surrounded by aromatic herbs such as fennel, thyme, rosemary. It’s planted to Tempranillo with a small percentage of Viura. Harvested by hand, 100% destemmed. Aged 10 months in 500L French oak in the castle cellar. Limited production: Australian allocation 24 bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmells ‘wide’, and holds its secrets close. Deep, mysterious, the most red note of the parcela wines - plums and boysenberries, with a touch of pimentón and plenty of fennel in the mix. La Conoca has a wonderfully sophisticated palate with fruit, tannin, spice, fleshiness and earthen tones blending beautifully and resolving with a lovely, lilting sweet-sour ripple. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"learn-more fullwidthbutton secondarybutton bottommargin5\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/files\/Jose_Gil_b3200209-bc60-4a6f-bcff-c73375a19de1.pdf?v=1682496547\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003eDownload Tasting Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e","brand":"Jose Gil","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":39896262967398,"sku":null,"price":208.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2040\/3839\/products\/LA_CANOCA_alta300ppp.jpg?v=1665371040"}],"url":"https:\/\/thespanishacquisition.com\/collections\/biodynamic.oembed?page=2","provider":"The Spanish Acquisition","version":"1.0","type":"link"}