Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla Brandy de Jerez, Solera Gran Reserva, Single Cask (13/102) Oloroso Viejo 39.7% 500ml

Bottled 4 November 2008. Lot Number: 230908

This brandy is aged in Oloroso Casks for 15 years

'Has a Copper colour and intense notes of sweet sherry, rich fruit with a touch of vanilla

and very elegant. Mahogany in colour with fine toasted aromas; it is complex and clean,

with tobacco and notes of wood, nuts and figs. On the palate it is broad, very balanced,

with sweet sherry notes, rich fruit with a touch of vanilla and great persistence.'

Country: Spain
Producer: Rey Fernando de Castilla
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Jerez de la Fronterra

Bodegas Tradición Fino Tradición 750ml

Average Age 8 years.

This is a wine in full maturity, the result of lengthy ageing under "flor" - a veil of yeasts, in American oak barrels using the solera and criaderas system.

Very dry, it denotes a salinity, complexity, intensity and length that is hard to compare, offering a long persistence on the palate. This is a rare breed of fino that is pure, serious and traditional. Tradición old fino: unique quality. Limited production.

Country: Spain
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Jerez de la Fronterra

Bodegas Tradición VOS 20 Year Old Pedro Ximenez 750ml

Average Age: 22 Years, and 15.5% Alc/vol.

Producer Notes - "A very special and exclusive sweet wine made from a selection of grapes of the same name, properly dehydrated in the sun and turned into wine using artisan methods. Aged under the traditional system of soleras and criaderas over many years in American oak, it is a creamy, velvety wine with a balance of non-cloying sweetness and refreshing acidity.

Pedro Ximénez is obtained from the grape variety of the same … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Tradicion
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Jerez de la Fronterra

Bodegas Valdemar Conde Valdemar Rioja Crianza 2020

Distributor notes "Vibrant red cherry colour, with a medium-high intensity, clean and bright. On the nose, it is fresh and intense, highlighting the aromas of forest fruits that are integrated in a balanced way with oak notes and a spicy touch that adds complexity. On the palate, the wine is tasty, with a soft and pleasant entry that brings freshness. Its passage through the mouth is friendly and balanced, with a long and persistent finish that leaves a nice impression … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Valdemar
Region: Rioja

Cabeza 'Que Tal?' Blanco (Chardonnay/Viura) 2023

This is a project with two family owned producers from northern Spain. Their wines are sourced from one of the finest family producers in Navarra and quite frankly the bang for buck is ridiculous!

A blend of Chardonnay and Viura fermented and aged in Stainless steel tanks, keeping the fruit fresh with a citrus zing.

Country: Spain
Producer: Cabeza
Region: Navarra

Cardenal Mendoza Brandy 700ml

With an average age of 15 years, Cardenal Mendoza is one of the most famed (and popular) brandies in Spain. It's a ripe, smooth, sweet-spiced style. Lashings of xmas pudding (from maturation in old PX and Olorosso barrels). Good length and finish from such a generous style.

Country: Spain
Producer: Romate
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Jerez de la Fronterra

Castro Martin Albarino 'Sobre Lias' 2022

The delightful Angela Martin and her husband, Andrew McCarthy, run the Castro Martin estate in Rias Baixas, on Spain's Galician coast, where production of Albarino at their bodega can be traced back to as far as 1887. Classic Albarino hallmarks show generously in this wine - a fragrant, opulent nose that is tempered by teeth-chattering acidity and saline texture.

Country: Spain
Producer: Castro Martin
Region: Galicia
Sub Region: Rías Baixas

César Márquez 'Parajes del Bierzo' Mencia 2022

César farms his vineyards organically, with indigenous yeasts. The vines are all over 100 years old. He uses minimal new oak in the winery and whole bunches to varied extents with the Mencia. As is often the case in the area, the vineyards are co-planted with Alicante Bouschet and up to 12 other native grape varieties. The nephew of the aforementioned Raul Pérez, he comes from the family that has owned Castro Ventosa since 1752.

Country: Spain
Producer: César Márquez
Region: Galicia
Sub Region: Bierzo

Cillar de Silos Estate Crianza Tempranillo 2018

Blueberry, tobacco and hung beef - it's gotta be Ribera! Well, good Ribera anyway ...With a pronounced earthiness, cool and precise in line, low in fructose, elegant and fine. Not a wine of bigness, it's a lovely, pure wine of very high quality and beautifully composed. Dark cherry fruit specked with tobacco melds into a fine tannin line which itself seems indivisible from fruit and also from earth and is wired on steely minerals and fine natural acidity.

Country: Spain
Producer: Cillar de Silos
Region: Castilla y Leon
Sub Region: Ribera del Duero

Cillar de Silos Estate Crianza Tempranillo 2019

Blueberry, tobacco and hung beef - it's gotta be Ribera! Well, good Ribera anyway ...With a pronounced earthiness, cool and precise in line, low in fructose, elegant and fine. Not a wine of bigness, it's a lovely, pure wine of very high quality and beautifully composed. Dark cherry fruit specked with tobacco melds into a fine tannin line which itself seems indivisible from fruit and also from earth and is wired on steely minerals and fine natural acidity.

Country: Spain
Producer: Cillar de Silos
Region: Castilla y Leon
Sub Region: Ribera del Duero

Cillar de Silos Estate Tempranillo 2018 Magnum

Blueberry, tobacco and hung beef - it's gotta be Ribera! Well, good Ribera anyway ...With a pronounced earthiness, cool and precise in line, low in fructose, elegant and fine. Not a wine of bigness, it's a lovely, pure wine of very high quality and beautifully composed. Dark cherry fruit specked with tobacco melds into a fine tannin line which itself seems indivisible from fruit and also from earth and is wired on steely minerals and fine natural acidity.

Country: Spain
Producer: Cillar de Silos
Region: Castilla y Leon
Sub Region: Ribera del Duero

Clos Mogador Nelin Priorat Blanco 2021

"Marking the 20th anniversary of this white wine, the 2021 Nelin was produced with Garnacha Blanca, Macabeo, Xarel.lo and Picapoll white and Cariñena Blanca - in the future, there will be more and more of the last two varieties in the blend, a big change from the beginning. Produced with the juice from the direct pressing, the wine spent one year in oak and six months in tank. It's balsamic, eminently Mediterranean and ripe, with 14% alcohol (a little lower … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Clos Mogador
Region: Catalunya
Sub Region: Priorat

Clos Mogador Priorat 2021

The vineyard is a 20Ha amphitheater of crumbling slate. The vines are at 350 metres and are surrounded by mountains up to 1,200 metres high and the vineyard's lower extremes are adjacent to the Siurana River.

"The eponymous red 2021 Clos Mogador fermented with some 30% full clusters trying to give it more freshness (but without noticing the stems) with a long maceration (40 to 50 days) and (almost) no punching down, with less extraction. There's been a progressive change … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Clos Mogador
Region: Catalunya
Sub Region: Priorat

Delgado Zuleta Amontillado 'Monteagudo' 375ml. 18.5%.

Winery Notes - "This comes from the solera of manzanilla Zuleta. This wine begins as Manzanilla and therefore has a biological aging in a first phase, but after losing the characteristic layer of flor yeast it undergoes an oxidative stage. 100% Palomino variety, with about 8 or 9 years of aging in American oak casks, using the traditional Criaderas & Solera system.

It is clean and bright with an intense golden color. With very intense nose and nuances of biological … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Delgado Zuleta
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Sanlucar de Barrameda

Delgado Zuleta Manzanilla Pasada 'La Goya' 375ml

Bottled, April 2024. Fantastic value Manzanilla, and a great introduction to the dry end of Spanish Sherry. Light, flinty, salty, a little herbal (chamomile) with the tang of sea air that defines the manzanilla style. Bottled in screwcap & with the bottling date in English on the back. Delicious & progressive.

"We bottle and ship fresh every two months, to ensure this definitively crisp, refreshing young white wine is always in spanky form. Camomile and oyster-shell aromatics, Chablis-like mid-palate fruit, … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Delgado Zuleta
Region: Andalucia
Sub Region: Sanlucar de Barrameda