Wine

Lealtanza Artist Series Sorolla 2010 Reserva a spanish Artist Collection:
Our fifth edition pays homage to the great Impressionist painter Joaquin Sorolla. Limited edition of 42.000 bottles.

This 2010 Lealtanza Artist Series Sorolla Reserva wine has a rich colour. This Spanish wine is very pleasant on the nose, where the fruity notes (especially black forest fruit) blend harmoniously with the spicy nuances as vanilla, balsamic and mineral notes; one can notice nice and elegant lactic aromas together with exquisite toasty character coming from our excellent French oak. Silky, velvety and pleasant entry; round and well-structured, its well-balanced tannins make of Lealtanza Sorolla Reserva 2010 a powerful yet elegant wine in mouth. Long aftertaste.

This Lealtanza Artist Series Sorolla Reserva wine will pair nicely with stews, red and white meat and strong-flavoured cheeses. Our chef’s suggestion: seared ahi tuna steaks.

VARIETAL: 100% Tempranillo

AGEING: 18 months in French oak barrels plus 3 months in French oak (Allier) cask of 22 HL.

AWARDS:
92 Decanter -Tasting Premium Rioja
Gold Medal at Mundusvini

The Marques de Grinon Criado en Barrica wine has an intense ruby red colour. This Spanish red wine is very well balanced with good structure and fine tannins. The Criado en Barrica wine is delicious, with a predominance of sweet spice and vanilla notes from the extended oak ageing and fine red berry fruit on the long finish. A medium-bodied with fresh acidity, this is ready to drink, with just a slight firmness to the tannins.

The Marqués de Griñón brand has become a global symbol of excellence for wine and olive oil. In fact, Family Payments Marqués de Griñón has managed to position itself in the world top lists of both essential elements of the Mediterranean diet and culture.

This Marques de Grinon Criado en Barrica is best paired with Beef, Lamb, Veal, and Poultry.

The 2018 Marques de Grinon Reserva Catalunya wine has a deep ruby red colour with garnet shades and aromas of ripe fruit with salty notes. It presents very good aromatic intensity and complexity, aromas of red fruits and red fruits that are in perfect conjunction with the notes of chocolate and spices (tertiary aromas), which refer to their aging in the best wooden barrels of Brands of Grinon. This Marques de Grinon Reserva wine has a well-balanced palate, with ripe tannins. This Spanish red wine has a full-bodied wine with soft and long finishing.

The Marques de Griñon winemaking philosophy is based on preserving the organoleptic values of each variety, applying the principle of minimum handling and performing the essential operations.

This 2018 Marques de Grinon Reserva Catalunya wine is ideal to accompany with stews, cured cheeses, game meats and roasts. This Spanish red wine is aged for 22 months in American oak barrels, the first nine months in new oak and the rest in five-year Bordeaux barrels, followed by 18 months of aging in the bottle.

The 2018 Marques de la Concordia Rioja Crianza wine has a ruby colour with berry aromas on the nose. This Spanish Crianza Wine is well-structured palate with ripe, forward fruit and balanced acidity and a long finish. This is a short aged Rioja of exceptional quality using the latest winemaking technology with a modern approach to ageing called Crianza Corta. The Marques de la Concordia Rioja Crianza was aged for 6 months in new French and American oak gives the wine structure resulting in a fruity and immediately approachable wine.

Founded in 1870 Marques de la Concordia a is the second oldest wine cellar in rioja. The crianza is made with old vine tempranillo from vineyards in Rioja alta and aged in new french and american oak for 18 months.

Awards:
2013 Vintage: Commended – International Wine Challenge
2013 Vintage: Silver – International Wine & Spirit Competition
2012 Vintage: Silver – Mundus Vini
2010 Vintage: Silver – Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

The 2016 Marques de la Concordia Rioja Reserva wine has a deep ruby red with great depth of colour. This Spanish reserva wine has a concentrated bouquet of ripe fruit and cedar notes showing extensive barrel ageing. The palate is concentrated, intense, velvety rich and well balanced by firm acidity. This Rioja Reserva wine finish is long and elegant.

The Marques de la Concordia Rioja Reserva wine is extremely high quality Rioja Reserva which is aged for 24 months in new French and American oak barrels and a further year in bottle and will improve with further bottle ageing.

AWARDS:
2009 Vintage: Commended – International Wine Challenge
2007 Vintage: Bronze – International Wine & Spirit Competition
2006 Vintage: Bronze – International Wine Challenge
2006 Vintage: Bronze – International Wine & Spirit Competition
2006 Vintage: Bronze – San Francisco International Wine Competition

The 2019 Rioja Santiago Seleccionada by Marques de la Concordia wine is a tribute to the 150-year history of the winery. Concordia brings together in this wine the authenticity of a Rioja and the easy accessibility, made for young wine drinkers who are introduced to more complete and aged wines. Modern style of Rioja with marked primary aromas of fruitiness in its second year of ageing.

This Rioja Santiago Seleccionada by Marques de la Concordia wine is a full bodied. Deeply coloured hue with an intense bouquet of ultra-ripe berry fruit. This Spanish Red wine is underlined with fine oaky nuances, spice and great depth of flavour. Perfectly balanced, concentrated and long lasting. The blend is 85% Tempranillo, 5% Syrah, 5% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.

This 2019 Rioja Santiago Seleccionada wine is ideal to accompany meat dishes, roasts and cheeses, it goes well with barbecued quail, pizza trays or a pasta dish with pesto.

The Tapas Tempranillo wine by Marques de la Concordia has a deep red colour with garnet hues. The nose is expressed with smoky notes, strawberry, and raspberry. This Spanish Tempranillo wine is juicy, well-balanced, soft and pleasant on the palate.

This Tapas Tempranillo is a red wine made by Berberana from the region of VT Castilla that is based on tempranillo grapes. Ideal accompaniment to lamb, poultry and cured cheeses. Best served at between 14-16°C.

Awards:
2014 Vintage: Bronze – International Wine & Spirit Competition

The Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2010 has marvelous aromas of crushed berries, tobacco, cedar and mushrooms. Some dried cheese. Then turns to flowers. Very complex. Full and intense with fantastic depth and power. It goes on for minutes. It is a wine that exudes tradition but gives a sense of modernity with precise winemaking. Two years in oak, one in concrete and three or four in bottle. Drink on release and age onwards. –

It has greatness and finesse and is a very attractive wine with all the stuffing and balance that is needed for a long (and positive) aging in bottle. This is one of the finest modern day vintages of Castillo Ygay. This is going to develop in the direction of the classical bottlings from yesteryear.

Ygay these days is a blend of Tempranilo and Mazuelo, the later making up 15% in this vintage. 2010 will be remembered in the great vineyards of Europe as a classic year, elegant restraint and wonderful harmonious balance, even in youth, its key characteristics. The Ygay fits this template perfectly; plums and sloes, hints of blueberry and cassis, then figs, cocoa and sousbois, a distinct balsamic note to underline provenance. The Mazuelo etches fresh acidity and a powerful finish, leaving the Tempranillo the opportunity to dance flamboyantly on the mid-palate, the bringer of joy and harmony. – Simon Field, Decanter

The 2011 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial wine has deep garnet. This Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial wine is a highly perfumed, complex bouquet evokes red and blue fruits, incense, pipe tobacco, vanilla and mocha, along with smoky mineral and spice nuances that build in the glass. Sappy, palate-staining black raspberry, cherry compote, succulent herb, candied rose and vanilla flavors show excellent depth and clarity, while a spine of juicy acidity contributes cut and structure. Shows excellent energy and detail, finishing with strong persistence, repeating florality and velvety tannins that come in late.

This 2011 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial wine is best paired with ateamed grouper fish, grilled squid and fine black sauce with its allied croquette. Candied and ember-roasted Bresse pigeon, Cameros truffle and red wine. Long cooked Wagyu tail in red wine, smoked eel and foie mille-feuille. Truffled Moliterno sheep’s milk cheese.

97 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
97 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Vinous

The Marques de Murrieta Reserva 2017 is a traditional Rioja wine crafted in the classic Murrieta signature style and enjoying all the benefits of modern winemaking philosophy, equipment and techniques. This Marques de Murrieta Reserva has incredible depth and intensity on the nose with chocolate, walnut, blackberry and wet-earth aromas. Some iodine, too. All this follows through to a full body with very silky tannins that give the wine depth and length. It’s really framed beautifully. Reserved and tight at the finish. A terrific wine for the cellar.

The red 2017 Rioja Reserva is their flagship wine, of which they produce 900,000 bottles exclusively from grapes from their 300 hectares of estate vineyards. It’s a blend of 83% Tempranillo, 9% Graciano, 6% Mazuelo (Cariñena) and 2% Garnacha and has the character of the vintage, ripe and warm but without excess.

This Marques de Murrieta Reserva wine pairs beautifully with baked red snapper with grilled vegetables in white wine, apple, lime, and rosemary, or even lamb chops with buttermilk, asparagus, and red wine. Decanting the wine for 20 minutes is recommended. Best enjoyed between 59º- 61ºF.

96 points James Suckling
94 points Decanter
93 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The Mureda Cabernet Sauvignon wine has a ruby colour with violet hues and red fruits aroma with balsamic notes. The Mureda Cabernet Sauvignon wine is flavorful, well-balanced with long aftertaste. This 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon wine is flavorful, well-balanced with long aftertaste. This red wine is ideal to accompany red meat, cheeses & pasta dishes.

Located in one of the regions with higher wine-producing tradition in La Mancha, Mureda is a young winery that has known how to fusion splendidly tradition and technology for the achievement of wines of great quality. All the vineyards here are certified as suitable for the production of organic wines.

The Mureda Syrah wine presents a pretty intense cherry red robe to the eye. The 2019 Syrah grape varieties combine to give the nose the impression of fruity harmony. This Mureda Syrah wine has spicy notes complete this first olfactory encounter with wine. On the palate, it is the freshness of youth that is surprising. Notes of plum, cinnamon, blueberry and spices captivate the palate. The Mureda Syrah wine is ideal to accompany white meat, poultry and cheese.

The Mureda Syrah is a red wine from a renowned family estate in Spain. Located in the heart of the autonomous community of Castilla La Mancha, the vines are not the only attraction of the area which promotes polyculture. Thanks to 1,200 hectares benefiting from organic farming certification, this wine aims to be respectful of the environment and promises to reveal the riches of an entire territory. All the vineyards here are certified as suitable for the production of organic wines.

The 2019 Mureda Tempranillo wine has a cherry red color with maroon tinged hues, this wine opens with a pleasantly fruity aroma revealing notes of red fruit with balsamic touches. The Tempranillo wine is balanced with sweet and round tannins, this full-bodied wine manifests a long & persistent finish.

Located in the historical land of La Mancha in Spain where the legendary beauty & character of Princess Mora in the 1500s inspired the birth of the House of Mureda, Bodegas Mureda counts a total of 1,200 hectares of total vineyard plantings in the Castilla-La Mancha Region where the Estate takes exhaustive control of the grapes from planting to the final bottled product. All the vineyards here are certified as suitable for the production of organic wines.

This Mureda Tempranillo wine is ideal to accompany red and white meat and cheeses.

The 2018 Tinto Pesquera Reserva wine by Alejandro Fernandez from Ribera del Duero, Spain. This Pesquera Tinto Reserva has finesse and strength and is a wonderful example of the true elegance that can be obtained when Tempranillo is aged over time in bottle. Clean and brilliant with an attractive, deep ruby hue. Nose: Complex and very elegant with black fruit aroma, such as plums, together with notes of smoke, spices, roasted coffee beans, toffee, licorice and brioche. Palate: Full, creamy and lingering on the palate. Very rounded, coated tannins with hints of well-integrated fruit coming through.

Tinto Pesquera’s vines are located within the province of Valladolid, in the heart of Ribera del Duero, which has hot summers, incredibly cold winters and extreme diurnal temperature differences that create an ideal combination for producing silky and sumptuous Tempranillo wines.

This 2018 Tinto Pesquera Reserva wine is a perfect as an accompaniment with casseroles, red meats and matured cheeses.

100% Tempranillo
Alcohol 14.5%.

96 Points Wine Enthusiast
93 Points Wine & Spirits

The 2020 Tinto Figuero Crianza wine has a great aromatic intensity with lots of freshness. The red fruit stands out in a wide range of spices such as vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper, rounded off by toffee and tobacco from the oak aging. Wide mouth opening with very good tannic structure prolonged by great acidity. The whole aromatic range perceived on the nose is found again on the palate.

The 2017 Tinto Figuero Noble wine has a deep cherry in colour with a fine garnet rim. This Tinto Figuero Noble is wonderfully intense and complex on the nose, with aromas of raspberry, currants and plum, as well as liquorice, black pepper and cinnamon. There is also something floral here, with balsamic and roasted coffee beans on the finish. The palate is powerful and dense with great tannic structure and brilliant acidity – the perfect combination for ageing. Elegant and balanced, this is an outstanding wine that will keep for many years to come.

Tinto Figuero was born from a thousand vines, which were received by José María García and Milagros Figuero in the year of their wedding, 1961. The Figuero philosophy is based on utmost respect and minimal intervention in the winemaking process. Therefore, nature is allowed to follow its course at every stage, accompanying the wines every step of the way. Winemakers Jean-François Hébrard and Óscar Rodríguez form an essential partnership to bring together the two philosophies of “know-how” and “laissez-faire” as Figuero’s way of understanding viticulture and oenology.

Food matches: Serve with steak, venison and other hearty dishes, as well as hard cheese.