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Low Stock Altos de la Guardia Crianza Rioja 2021

Altos de la Guardia Crianza Rioja 2021

Item Code: 1516121

Description

Over the last five vintages this Crianza has won Trophy for 'Best Red over £10' plus 14 Golds. It's from Haut-Brion-trained winemaker Jean-Marc Sauboua, at his super-high bodega, Altos. Silky, elegant with ripe fruit, violets and gentle spice.

Bordeaux-born Jean-Marc Sauboua has been our Trophy-winning winemaker at Bordeaux’s Château La Clarière for many years. In 2006, he decided to start a winery of his own and, with Spanish blood, decided Rioja was his destination. His aim: to make a Grand Cru of Rioja. He has no vineyards but works with the same growers he has since the start. The mature vines lie above 700 metres, the highest in Rioja, to ensure an elegant, modern style. He's won well 300 Golds since 2006, as well as Trophies for Winery of the Year, Rioja of the Year and Best Spanish Red over £10. 2021 was classed a very good vintage. High up where Altos lies, it's always cool, so ripening is slow, and wines are fresh. Aged a year in oak, this elegant red is best decanted.

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RRP HK$229.00
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Altos R Pigeage Tempranillo Rioja 2019

Item Code: 3379119

Description

The flagship cuvée of Altos has won over 180 Golds and numerous top scores since 2006, the 2019 gaining 94 Suckling points, plus 7 Golds and 97pts. Using old-vine Tempranillo and Graciano aged in new French oak, it’s a serious, Grand Cru style Rioja.

Our Haut-Brion-trained winemaker, Jean-Marc Sauboua, founded Altos in 2006 and, all together, has won over 300 Golds, Trophies, plus many high scores. He leaves Amaia Amestoy in charge of the cellar when he's not there, whose CV includes experience at Murrieta in Rioja and Villacreces in Ribera del Duero. They make this wine from old-vine (80+ years) Tempranillo and Graciano, vinifying it using Burgundy’s pigeage method. This involves fermenting in open vats and plunging the skins into the liquid three times a day – hands-on winemaking that delivers great results. Aged for two years in half new French oak and bottled unfiltered, the wine offers seams of intense black fruit with spice-box complexity.
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RRP HK$399.00
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Low Stock Carravacas de Primicia Crianza Rioja 2018

Carravacas de Primicia Crianza Rioja 2018

Item Code: 1475018

Description

Savour oodles of lavish berry fruit in this juicy Rioja, with its silky texture and subtle oak spice.



It’s from Primicia, a bodega adored by customers and also by fine wine guru Robert Parker. He is full of praise for their fruity, modern Riojas.

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RRP HK$219.00
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Carravacas de Primicia Reserva Rioja 2015

Item Code: 0051615

Description

This Rioja Reserva always impresses us with its seductive, rich flavours and now, with six years' age, it's showing its complexity. It’s all hand picked Tempranillo from a special Alavesa vineyard – luscious, layered berry fruit and oaky length.

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RRP HK$269.00
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Low Stock Carravacas de Primicia Rioja 2021

Carravacas de Primicia Rioja 2021

Item Code: 1494121

Description

It’s from Primicia, a bodega that we've championed for over a decade and whose wines are loved by customers. Enjoy their fruity, lightly oaked Rioja from a great vintage.



Classic Rioja fans will love this red, with all its moreish, silky, ripe berry fruit tempered by toasty spice. No wonder the late Spanish expert John Radford listed Primicia among his top 20 Rioja bodegas. It’s a family estate, founded by three brothers, and has over the years won many awards. This 2021 is made from 100% strawberry-scented Tempranillo, from mature, low-yielding vineyards.

Winemaker Fernando Domingo matured the wine in American oak barrels for four months – just enough to flatter the fruit with gentle toasty spice and hints of vanilla, while letting plenty of exuberant, youthful fruit character shine through. A delight on its own, this wine is spot on with garlic chicken, lamb chops with rosemary or a selection of tapas.

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RRP HK$189.00
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Low Stock Castillo de Epifanía Rioja Alta 2021

Castillo de Epifanía Rioja Alta 2021

Item Code: 4085021

Description

Juan Antonio Leza in rarely featured Rioja Alta comes this gorgeous, seductively silky Tempranillo. High vineyards bring freshness to this three-Golds red with its ripe cherry and strawberry fruit notes, unfettered by oak.

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RRP HK$169.00
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Low Stock Castillo Labastida Reserva 2016

Castillo Labastida Reserva 2016

Item Code: 4220916

Description

Lavish plum and raspberry, wrapped in cinnamon spice and vanilla oak in this fabulous 91-point & Gold Reserva. It's made by the award-winning Castillo Labastida in Rioja, Atlantic and mountain-cooled Alavesa region.

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RRP HK$279.00
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Low Stock Finca La Selva Gran Reserva Rioja 2015

Finca La Selva Gran Reserva Rioja 2015

Item Code: 2244515

Description

With many wines ranked over 90 points, Bodegas La Emperatriz is one of Rioja's finest estates. This is their seductively long, complex 7-year-old Gran Reserva from a remarkably single vineyard, just beginning to show at its best. Savour slowly.



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RRP HK$279.00
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Low Stock Pagos de Tahola Gran Reserva Rioja 2012

Pagos de Tahola Gran Reserva Rioja 2012

Item Code: 1519112

RRP HK$309.00
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Palacio del Conde Gran Selección 2016

Item Code: 0002716

Description

Gloriously mellow Gran Reserva, long aged in oak and bottle, from the sunblessed slopes of Valencia.



As Robert Parker says, “Spain leads the world for sensational wine bargains of character and soul”, none more so than its mature reds. Nowhere else produces mellow, barrel-aged wines of such remarkable quality and price. Take Palacio del Conde – a gorgeously complex, oaky 2016 from Valencia.

Part of this region is close to the coast, while the more southerly part is inland, up in the hills, and dry. It’s there that winemaker Marta Martínez selects the finest, hand harvested – from 50 year old vines – Tempranillo grapes for this Gran Reserva, then ages the wine for three years in oak barrels. A wonderfully fragrant, silky red with mature redcurrant and strawberry fruit and a rich, toasty character. Sublime with roast lamb or tapas.

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RRP HK$179.00
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