Wine Reviews
Coto Gomariz is a bodega which started acquiring vineyards in 1979 with the firm intention of promoting the region’s native grape varieties. With a young, enterprising spirit, the Carreiro family has organized this winery which has over 20 hectares of vineyards under biodynamic viticulture and which today is under the tutelage of oenologist, Xosé...
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In previous issues we have already highlighted the potential of the Priorat as a fashionable wine region. This would be difficult to understand if it were not for the estimable figure of René Barbier. For the past twenty five years, this sage of French origin has been a key figure in the Catalan wine revolution and through his work he has...
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The Alvarez family’s international project to get its hands on the traditionally famous Tokaji wine started in 1993 with the acquisition of the Oremus winery. Since then, after significant technical investment and completing the long, hard work of remodeling the winery’s old galleries, they have attained the zenith of quality wines produced in...
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This is an interesting project from Viñas del Vero, one of the most important bodegas in Somontano (Aragon). Eleven years after its foundation, they came up with the idea of creating an iconic wine that would be born under the aegis of its vineyards but produced and aged in a different manner. They therefore fitted out a new winery alongside them...
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In the late eighties, Mario Rotllant and Carme Daurella arrived in the neighborhood of La Estación, in the Rioja town of Haro, firmly resolved to bring something new to the wine world. The result, twenty five years later, could not be more splendid. Today, Roda is a reference in the region and by extension one of the most well regarded bodegas on...
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Another Selectus Wines raid through the front door into the magical essence of the fabulous wines of Priorat, this time those of Celler Mas Doix. Although they have a wonderful wine history behind them, the journey having started with the Doix family five generations ago, they “reinvented” their wines in 1998 when they joined forces with the...
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Much of the Catalan identity of the Torres family and its wines, lies in understanding the importance of this estate wine within the range of premium products produced by the bodega. Owing its name to the walls which protected the monastery of Poblet from wars and mercenaries, Grans Muralles, a Conca de Barberá Denomination of Origin, is a clear...
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Benjamin Romeo’s wines give us the blessed satisfaction of knowing that even today there are those who take risks in the wine world regardless of fashion or the dictates of the past. Benjamin is the man behind these wines which, since their first vintage, have received countless rave reviews from wine trade professionals and consumers. His wines...
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This interesting project was begun in the middle of the last decade by South African, Eben Sadie and German, Dominik A. Huber who are possibly the best representatives of what has been called Priorat’s “second revolution”. The bodega is located in the village of Torroja del Priorat and its style is distinctly Burgundy-inspired. They produce five...
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This is one of the Ribera del Duero’s revelations of recent years. The bodega, bordering the most renowned properties in the region, is located on the famous “Golden Mile” where the road cuts through names that dazzle on wine lists around the world. This is where the Finca Villacreces estate, now belonging to the Artevino Group (2004), was...
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