With bold fruit and gentle spice, La Llave Roja is a tasty, easy-fruit Tempranillo Syrah from sparsely populated Extremadura. It’s from Carlos Plaza, A red that’s hard to put down.
A remarkable red from a Rioja icon, López de Heredia. There’s no concession to modernity, with fermentation in 140-year-old wooden vats plus six years’ ageing in oak casks, the rest in bottle. 97 points from James Suckling, this is a Reserva legend.