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This has really fine, delicate, spiced aromas, with beautifully-integrated oak notes adorning a wealth of intense yet subtle fruit character It's incredibly supple and silky, with mouthfilling, super-soft tannins Utterly wonderful, with truffley, foresty complex nuances emerging with time in the glass Rare in Ribera del Duero, El Anejon is a steeply-sloping site - so much so that it had to be terraced in order to be planted with vines, which are around 80% Tinto Fino with the remainder Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon It is one of the region's higher sites, at 870m elevation

From the clay and limestone soils of the high plateau of Pedrosa in the Ribera del Duero, this aromatic Tinto Fino (aka Tempranillo) wine is richly concentrated with mulberry and black cherry fruit aromas and flavours The wine includes 10% of Cabernet Sauvignon and has spent 18 months in French oak and was bottled unfiltered The nose has a fine complexity with tones of ripened fruit such as cherry, cassis and plum all harmonised by the wood and spice character (vanilla and cocoa) with undercurrents of liquorice The palate displays great balance with glossy, mature tannins and elegant fruit character that echoes the nose The finish is long and elegant

This is like drinking liquid silk Seamless and refined, with no holes or gaps, it has a lot of power, weight and concentration, yet carries these effortlessly It could last for many years, but it's so delicious now that it would take a lot of willpower to cellar it Pago de Carraovejas is challenging Vega Sicilia and Pingus for top spot in Ribera del Duero, and from tasting this wine, it's easy to see why Utterly sensational

JIMBRO 3 is an exquisite blend of three red grape varietals from Arribes del Duero's century-old vineyards. Blending the lesser-known Brunal, Rufete, and Juan Garcia varietals results in a superb wine possessing a distinct personality, grace, and balance.

Leather, vanilla and spice of traditionally made Rioja enveloped in an elegant and textured palate

Ribera del Cuarzo Clasico is all precision and finesse - a pure note of blue-black fruit, sweet cream and rising dough fills the room in which a glass is poured Closer in are green pinecones, sticky with sap, burstingly juicy cherries, vivid purple bilberries, and fat clusters of blue-bloomed black grapes With evocative violet character, and hints of liquorice and cedary pencil shavings, this has a restraint that echoes cru classe Medoc Bordeaux: an impression underscored by its lithe, fine-boned structure An exquisite wine, this will impress now and should develop beautifully with bottle age This is the produce of eight vineyards, which together showcase the diversity of the classic area of the Rio Negro valley

Intriguing and aromatic notes of balsamic, wild herbs and floral blossom combine with nutty complexity The palate reveals fine polished tannins and a fresh cool-climate twist

An incredibly distinguished wine from the tiny, 14 hectare, El Bosque vineyard, planted on a deep gravel terrace overlooking the Ebro River The Egurens recognised the similarity of this well-drained site to the great growths of Bordeaux, and the concentration and complexity of its miniscule annual yield are truly awesome One to cellar for an extremely special occasion The exceptional quality of the vineyard is reflected in the intensity of aromas and flavours, exquisite finesse and extraordinary length, and the ability to mature for many years

Ribera del Cuarzo Parcela Unica fuses the smoothness and multifaceted complexity of Especial with the pinpoint precision of Clasico It is a basket of just-picked black cherries and foraged black truffles, a handful of pink peppercorns and crushed juniper, weather-washed Welsh wet slate, liquorice bootlace and an inhalation of the year's first vernal violet It is a perfectly-proportioned, impeccably-tailored sartorial suit of finely-woven tannins; a wine of polish yet minute detail that elicits a haunting sense of place Drink now, and be impressed, although its balance and intensity should allow for a decade's development in the bottle Made from the finest grapes, carefully selected from the prime plot, in the southwest quadrant of the Araucana Vineyard The elevated limestone composition of the soil and relentless winds impart heightened potency and finesse

Ribera del Cuarzo Especial is a wine of dense-packed black fruit, liquorice, peaty earth, damp forest soil and rich, moist, sticky dark chocolate brownie If Clasico is a pure, single note, this is a resonant chord, of high treble and deep bass, with great amplitude and vocal range, and utter harmony Velvet texture, junipery complexity all underpinned by an umami richness Drink this magnificent wine now and over the next 7-10 years Exclusively from the 5-hectare Araucana Vineyard, whose calcareous soils, cool nights and strong winds result in wines with excellent concentration and marked natural acidity