This producer is rather conspicuous in terms of how little of its wine seems to be available for sale around the world,...
Ferratus, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2014
Ferratus (or, more fully, Bodegas Cuevas Jimenez Ferratus) is a medium-sized producer of about 10,000 cases per year, well...
Valduero, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2014
This is one of the largest and most venerable bodegas in the appellation, and though sheer size is often inversely...
Valduero, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2016
I seized an opportunity to taste this more developed version of the 2018 "Tierra Alta 'Valduero 2 Maderas”...
Isaac Fernández Selections, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2020
I know this wine from all recent vintage releases, and it always seriously over-performs in complexity and seriousness in...
Bodegas Mauro, Finca de la Tierra de Castilla y León (Spain) 2019
Clearly excellent in all respects, even at this young age and right from when the cork is first pulled, this will...
Bodegas Finca la Capilla, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2018
I’ve not been able to visit this bodega, so I can only render my impressions based on tasting two wines from...
Arrocal, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2018
This medium-sized, family-owned bodega (they’ve been growers since 1850) is among the most rapidly rising in the...
Arrocal, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2019
I tasted this vintage of this wine both at the bodega in Spain and also in my home in late April, 2022, and was highly...
Bodegas Valderiz, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2018
As the name would suggest, this bottling is the cornerstone of this bodega’s production, and it proves very...
Bodegas Valderiz, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2014
Only about 3,500 bottles of this are made in an average year from two parcels wine vines averaging 80 or more years of...
Bodegas Comenge, Ribera del Duero (Castilla y León, Spain) 2017
This bodega is doing very interesting work with yeast strains, isolating the best ones from their vineyard sites and then...