“Lots of fruit, structure and pizzazz! Who couldn’t like this?” - Jancis Robinson MW and ‘Wine of the Week’ (January 10th 2025)

A superb wine for the price and, without wishing to toot our own horn, the price is a reflection of our hard endeavours on your behalf, snooping around the outer creeks and tributaries of the wine trade for bargains. We found this wine at a quirky little event in London recently and were about to place an order, when the shipper contacted us saying that he could offer us a clearance price that would allow us to sell it for £14.95 if we took it all. Given that we were about to place an order anyway, when it would have retailed for £19.95, we dropped the gavel immediately!

It's a light, perfumed, medium-pale-coloured Garnacha (mostly) from vineyards in the Gredos Mountains, west of Madrid, where Garnacha takes on a much daintier, Pinot Noir-like personality than elsewhere in Spain or, indeed, France. That said, it is still packed with flavour, displaying cherry, sour plum and something slightly savoury (tomato consommé?), and it has a bit of gravitas too, with terracotta dust tannins, meaning it can stand up to food. 14% alc. Drink now-2028.

Press reviews:

Jancis Robinson MW: “Lots of fruit, structure and pizzazz! Who couldn’t like this? Lightly gamey with real personality. Very Good Value. Drink now-2028.” 16.5 points and ‘Wine of the Week’ January 2025

JancisRobinson.com (Tamlyn Currin): “Transparent in colour and still so remarkably fresh that it even tastes transparent. Tight tucked tartness bursting with character and flavour: sour plum, cherry tomato, tamarind and tomato vine, sumac. No sweetness, all twang. The tannins have an ochre-earth feel and ferrous drawl. It's mouth-watering and somehow both fine and rustic, both youthful and evolved. It was really lovely with super-thin slices of cold, very rare roast beef. A crazy price! If you love unshowy reds, you should snap this up. VGV. Drink now-2028.” 16.5 points

The Wine Advocate: “The red 2018 GR-10 Tinto contains a little less Cariñena and Syrah (10% and 20%, respectively) and, therefore, a little more Garnacha than the 2017 I tasted next to it. 2018 is a more complete vintage, with perfect ripening of the grapes, better yields and more balance in the wines. The fermentation and élevage were similar, with native yeasts, 90% full clusters and nine months in different sized barrels and a 4,200-litre oak vat. 2018 is clearly a great vintage, very complete, and the wines have more of everything: They are still young but are going to be superb, and you should wait on them while you drink your 2017s. This is like a more complete version of 2016, perhaps a vintage that is going to require more time. This is drinkable, but it's going to get better in bottle. It's ironic how in a great year the grapes are perfect, you work less, you get more wine and the result is better!” 92 points