Red wines from Spain

An opulent, plush style of Rioja. There's a big, tempting nose of sweet black cherry and cinnamon, with a mid-weight palate of cassis and tobacco leaf, before a long finish with suggestions of cool mint chocolate.

This is the wine that the bodega considers the embodiment of its style and values: a blend of the best of tradition with a contemporary, global outlook.

‘A round and soft red with berry and chocolate character, medium body and a flavorful finish. Delicious and inviting red. Drink now.’
90/100 James Suckling

Robust, full-bodied Catalonian red, bursting with cassis, coffee, cedar and liquorice notes. There's the richness of fruitcake too—this is a relatively extravagant style. Silky-smooth tannins and a long, complex finish.

Oak aged for one year in a combination of French and American wood, with five further months ageing in stainless steel and then a year's cellaring in bottle before release.

This organic red would make a great choice if you're planning to cook fillet steak, rack of lamb or even good homemade burgers. If you don't care for meat, you may be interested to know that it's vegan certified too and a sturdy match for the rich, smoky flavours of aubergine or good mushrooms.

Mas Codina sits in the Alt Penedès, Catalonia, and is protected by two benevolent mountain ranges. All the fruit it uses is estate-grown.

The typical blackcurrant character of a true Cabernet Sauvignon, but with grace, fruity freshness and a little extra softness from the Spanish sun. Brief oak aging enhances a well-structured red wine that is a good choice for all sorts of occasions and a natural match for barbecues and picnics.

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A perfect gift for red wine lovers, this selection brings together six medal-winning Riojas from Bodegas Altanza.

The Crianza offers a harmonious balance of red fruit flavours and toasty oak, while the 2011 Gran Reserva is a masterpiece of mellow subtlety from an outstanding vintage.

If you choose to click and collect from us, we'll put the bottles into the attractive Lealtanza presentation box—if you'd prefer delivery, the bottles will travel safe and sound in one of our Pulpsafe transit packs.

Concentrated and seductive Ribera exuding alluring notes of grilled meats, leather, raisins and figs, overlaid with spicy mocha, hazelnut and cedar. A huge amount going on in the glass! Potent, masculine and ageworthy.

Drink this very full-flavoured and powerful Spanish red either on its own as a vino da meditazione or else alongside special roast dinners or winter suppers featuring wild fowl or game.

This is the potent and intense Reserva-level Rioja from Bodegas Baigorri, a landmark tiered winery that commands a panoramic view over the vines of the estate.

The dark livery of the bottle anticipates the contents' rich, enticing aromas of dark fruits and raspberry and strawberry jam, with suggestions of the layers of flavour to come. It's a full-bodied wine that reveals a harmony of flavours on the palate from juicy red fruits through smooth, plummy depths to much darker, deeper hints of cocoa and leather from its eighteen months in new oak.

This balance of freshness and intensity makes Baigorri Reserva an obvious choice for red meat dishes, but its finesse means that it wouldn't overpower lighter meals, and it might do very well with a ratatouille or rich vegetable recipes too.

A Gran Reserva Rioja is a special treat, and this one comes from one of the outstanding Rioja vintages of the century.

The long ageing that qualifies this wine for the Gran Reserva label gives rise to complex and deep aromas from fruit to spice to smoke and leather. The oak influence carries through onto the palate, with rich, toasty breadth that takes in hints of coffee and dark chocolate around a core of fine, ripe Tempranillo fruit.

92/100 SILVER Decanter World Wine Awards 2020
90/100 Wine Enthusiast Magazine Feb/Mar 2021
90/100 SILVER Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge 2020
90/100 Tim Atkin Report 2021

Castilian gold!

This imposing red comes from vineyards on superior plots of land that give the finished wine great complexity and at the same time appetizing freshness.

The Oro crianza spends fourteen months in French (70%) and American (30%) oak, which gives its dark fruit aromas layers of spice and toast and enhances the inky, peaty mineral notes supplied by the deep-rooted vines.

This is a powerful but balanced wine, with soft tannins and juicy persistence. Pure Tempranillo fruit means plenty of rounded fruit character, but the dark mineral depths play their part too.

A very mellow and satisfying Spanish red that shows off the particular qualities of the Prieto Picudo grape from the Valles de Benavente region where northern Spain borders Portugal.

The wine has a dark cherry red colour and profound aromas of rich dark fruits  balanced with the secondary flavours of toast and spices from its two years' ageing in French and American oak casks.

Smooth on the palate, but with good acidity and delicate spicy and balsamic notes, it's an excellent, structured but generous match for a rich beef or game stew.

Made with the local Prieto Picudo grape variety, this rich red has intense aromas of berry fruit combined with delicate cocoa, vanilla and spice. It's smooth, with ripe fruit flavours and hints of minerals and liquorice. There are floral suggestions too, and this would make a perfect partner for herb-flavoured meat dishes like a lamb roast or a creamy curry.

The Rioja style of red wine seems never to go out of fashion, and this attractive crianza combines lashings of ripe fruit with toasty tobacco and leather flavours from twelve months' ageing in third-generation French and American oak barrels.

It's fresh and aromatic, and although the crianza effect is apparent and authentic, it's by no means too big or oaky a wine for everyday enjoyment with savoury meals.

This wine is a blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha grapes from the Don Sancho de Londoño family winery, which was established in 2004 as the realization of a dream and named after a local military hero of the sixteenth century.

The name of this wine, Plaer, means ‘pleasure’.

You may not need more persuading than that, but this old vine Priorat is a powerful, complex wine with enticing jammy aromas and an uplifting mineral energy. Red fruit juiciness and darker, velvety depths sustain its dense flavours for simply ages.

The Priorat vines that Albert Jané uses for this wine are all between forty and sixty years old, and grow on a number of the choicest plots in the Priorat DOQ. All the vineyards are based on llicorella soil, and minimal interference in the vines and cellar gives a robust expression of this slate terroir.

The grapes are harvested by hand, with selection carried out in the vineyards and again in the cellar. The resulting wine is aged for twelve months in one year old French oak barrels.

‘Bright violet color. A zesty mineral quality gives loft and focus to sexy aromas of candied flowers and red and dark berry preserves. The juicy, incisive and gently sweet palate offers black raspberry, floral pastille and a late touch of candied licorice. Fine-grained tannins rein in the exuberant fruit on the long and energetic finish. A powerful but finessed wine.’
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous

There has been the by now nearly customary heap of awards for the 2016 vintage of Plaer:

• 93/100, Guía Peñín 2019
• 94/100, Guia Intervinos 2019
• 94.62/100, Guía Wine Up! 2019
• 9.33/10 La Guia de Vins de Catalunya 2019
• 95/100, Guía de Vinos Gourmets 2019
• 90/100, Guía Vivir el Vino 2019