“So damn delicious.” - JancisRobinson.com, 17 points

This is the Bodega Copaboca’s top wine, named after the owner’s grandfather, Juan Galindo, who planted the first vines (Tempranillo) on the estate. It has an attractive enough outside, but the interior decoration is stunning! Every surface is covered in flavour. What we love about it is the way it combines treble and bass, offering aromatic high tones of oolong tea, kola nut, hibiscus petals, vanilla pod and blackcurrant pastilles, as well as deeper notes on the palate, as you would expect from a Ribera del Duero, showing black cherry and red-fleshed plums. Words like ‘hedonistic’ and ‘decadent’ come to mind. It's a bold, exuberant, powerful wine, but it has so much energy and panache that you don't feel its weight in a cumbersome way. Its ripe, sweetly succulent tannins coat the mouth in a layer of velvety luxury, and it has the body to stand toe to toe with a variety of bold-flavoured foods, from a rich vegetable stew to roast lamb to rib-eye steak or a brisket of beef. 14.5% alc. 14 months in new French and American oak barrels. Drink now-2030.

Press review:

Tim Atkin MW: “Clay-based, 40-year-old vineyards in La Horra are a good place to start if you want to produce a Ribera del Duero with intensity, concentration and balance like this one. Modern, poised, plush and aromatic, with deftly judged French and American oak and bright acidity. Drink now- 2027.” 91 points

JancisRobinson.com: “This wine tastes like a wise, thoughtful carpenter hand-whittled a deep groove in a beautiful, slow-seasoned, tight-grained trunk of old redwood. And the carpenter lined that groove with moss, truffle spores, mushroom spores, crushed juniper berries, wild cherries, lichen-laced twigs and some forest-floor pine needles and the slow, cool, dark breath of the forest floor. And then wrapped dark-red velvet ribbons around the groove and the bark and the dust of the bark and the dust of the carving of the groove. And then spilled pomegranate juice which bled into the cracks and fissures and stained everything this wild, tannic, sweet, sharp red. If you dipped a quill pen into this wine, it could not help but write poetry. Or you could just drink it and stop messing around, because it's so damn delicious. VGV (TC). Drink now-2026.” 17 points

Customer comments:

”Do you have another 12 of the Juan Galindo 2019? It thought it was superb.” - Mr G.S.

”I’m delighted with the wine!” - Mr. N. C.

“Greatly enjoying the Juan Galindo Ribera del Duero. Great pick from you guys as ever.” - Mr. M.B.

“Delicious. Very grown up.” - Mr J.B.

“Oh that’s very good!” - Mr S.O.