White wines from Spain

Gorgeously fruity, fresh white with an exuberant nose of passionfruit, hawthorn and honey, followed by a medium-bodied, zingy palate of citrus fruits. Clean, minerally finish with the faintest suggestion of maritime Galicia.

Enjoy this perennial customer and staff favourite with seafood or as an aperitif.

“Full on flavours of gooseberry, peaches, and white flowers. Inviting creaminess.”

Decanter World Wine Awards , Silver Medal (2010 vintage)

Peñín Guide 2012 - Silver Medal, 86/100

“Pale gold. Bright and energetic on the nose, displaying fresh Meyer lemon and green apple scents that give way to a deeper melon quality on the back half. Juicy and focused on the palate, offering sappy citrus and orchard fruit flavors and a touch of honeysuckle. The floral quality carries through a long, mineral-tinged finish that emphatically echoes the orchard fruit note.”
Vinous, 90/100 (May 2017, 2015 vintage)

“Aromas of fresh citrus fruits, crushed vitamins and nectarine are pleasant and welcoming. This offers good acidic cut and overall balance. Flavors of stone fruits focus on apricot and nectarine, while the finish is elegant.”
Wine Enthusiast 90 points (December 2016, 2015 vintage)

Albariño is synonymous with the rainy DO of Rías Baixas in north-west Spain, where it accounts for 90% of all plantings. Officially, 12 varieties are allowed in the DO, but little is seen of the other whites - Loureiro, Caiño blanco, Treixadura, Godello, Torrontés - and less again of the six permitted red grapes.

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to like this delicious, vibrant Verdejo.

It has irresistible lime and peach aromas, lively freshness and supple body. It's a fantastic white wine as an appetizer, and has enough character to accompany any light meal with its fragrant, confident charm.

A crisp and delicious white wine from the Rioja region with apples and some tropical fruit at first sniff. There are herbal and floral aromas too, and satisfying body matches the bright, juicy flavours.

From a winery begun in 2004 by a winegrowing family as 'a dream made real', this is sure-to-please, genuine Rioja—and leaves you with plenty of pieces of eight (Real de a 8) in the treasure chest!

This expressive white blend comes from the tiny Catalonian DO of Pla de Bages, and the wild herbs and woodland character of the landscape certainly seem to contribute to its delicious complexity.

It's fresh and inviting, with a zesty mix of tropical, citrus and floral scents, and was awarded gold in 2017 as the best wine of the entire Pla de Bages region in the annual Vinari awards.

This is a clean, bright wine with earthy, leafy aromas and suggestions of smoke enhancing rich, fresh fruit.

Three months in French oak give it texture and enhance its natural, dry fullness, though it's still a relatively restrained style of Chardonnay, making it a perfect partner for smoked fish, poultry and savoury appetisers.

Peachy, grapefruity, powerful (15% abv) blend fashioned from traditional, hand-selected Catalonian grapes grown in ancient vineyards on steep slopes 600m high in the DO of Montsant. Intriguing pollen and lavender notes in a complex and rewarding white wine with caramel and stone fruit character from its old vine white Grenache.

Enjoy its generous aromas and rich body with correspondingly plump, opulent flavours. It might make a great match for a caramelized onion and blue cheese tart, a creamy soup or the best seafood.

70% of the cuvée is fermented in stainless steel at cool temperatures to preserve the generous fruitiness of the wine. The balance is fermented in new French oak, imparting subtle, delicious richness to the finished wine.

‘Acustic ... offers the aromas and flavours of Priorat at a far more friendly price.’
The Wine Buyer's Guide

‘Montsant produces wines of very similar style and quality to Priorat.’
The Oxford Companion to Wine'

A peach-plump and powerful dry Macabeo from Cariñena, with floral and white fruit aromas. 

This is a big, almost unctuous wine, with good acidity balancing generous, silky fruit concentration. Fermentation in temperature controlled tanks preserves the pure flavours of the organically grown grapes.

Serve this well chilled with fish and seafood. Its full, rich style would also make a good choice with the assertive flavours of a barbecue.

Because of the relatively high alcohol and intensity of the style, we think this might work very well on a hot day as the base for an attractive spritzer, or served over ice.

Soft and lovely, this is a delicious everyday wine with clean fruit flavours and the generous, succulent character of its two grape varieties in perfect harmony. 

There's a juicy spine of fresh fruit acidity that keeps refreshing the palate with every sip, giving a dynamic energy and balancing the wine's dry, supple body.

This aromatic blend is vinified in tank, without any oak, before being bottled on the estate. Serve it cool—it's especially good with simple fish dishes.

Toni Garriga made just 2,262 bottles of this delicious white wine from the Costers de Lavernó sub-region of the Penedès appellation.

All the fruit is grown on the Mas Codina estate, and the exhilarating, zippy freshness of Xarel·lo is given a new dimension by fermentation and ageing in French and Hungarian oak barrels. (Though Xarel·lo is native to Penedès, and the use of oak in winemaking has a long history, the grapes are gently pressed pneumatically—not, as the label might suggest, by anyone's feet).

This is a clean and shapely white wine with enticing citrus aromas and elegant, silky texture.

The oak influence is subtle, and you could enjoy the Tradicio on its own, but it's a fantastic partner for fresh fish and seafood or poultry and white meat, perfectly capable of going anywhere a decent Chablis can go.

The magnum format of one of our most popular white wines. The Verdejos of Rueda are sometimes dubbed the Sauvignons of Spain, but their individual aromatic character and balance of freshness and weight in the mouth make them distinctively appealing.

The Guía Peñín 2018, the top reference for Spanish wines, accorded the 2016 Verdejo 91/100 (Excellent).

The prestigious French publication Gilbert & Gaillard awarded the 2016 vintage 92/100, describing this (high praise indeed from the French) as “a gourmet wine”.

The full flavours and creamy texture of this oaked white Rioja from old vines are likely to please fans of Californian Chardonnay, although the grapes are Viura—known elsewhere in Spain as Macabeo—and the local Malvasía Riojana.

There are aromas of peach and a mineral citrus peel note balancing the influence of the French oak barrels.

In the mouth, a rich, unctuous creaminess swirls around layers of tropical fruit: melon, pineapple and banana and the bright juiciness of the Viura before a long, supple finish.

Bold and rounded, this wine, fermented and aged on the lees for eight months in barrel, is very well suited to oily fish or seafood in a cream sauce as well as charcuterie and poultry.

To allow all its depths of honeyed richness to develop, don't over-chill the bottle, and give the wine a while to breathe before serving.

A crisp and delicious white wine from the Rioja region with apples and some tropical fruit at first sniff. There are herbal and floral aromas too, and satisfying body matches the bright, juicy flavours.

From a winery begun in 2004 by a winegrowing family as 'a dream made real', this is sure-to-please, genuine Rioja—and leaves you with plenty of pieces of eight (Real de a 8) in the treasure chest!

Peachy, grapefruity, powerful (15% abv) blend fashioned from traditional, hand-selected Catalonian grapes grown in ancient vineyards on steep slopes 600m high in the DO of Montsant. Intriguing pollen and lavender notes in a complex and rewarding white wine with caramel and stone fruit character from its old vine white Grenache.

Enjoy its generous aromas and rich body with correspondingly plump, opulent flavours. It might make a great match for a caramelized onion and blue cheese tart, a creamy soup or the best seafood.

70% of the cuvée is fermented in stainless steel at cool temperatures to preserve the generous fruitiness of the wine. The balance is fermented in new French oak, imparting subtle, delicious richness to the finished wine.

‘Acustic ... offers the aromas and flavours of Priorat at a far more friendly price.’
The Wine Buyer's Guide

‘Montsant produces wines of very similar style and quality to Priorat.’
The Oxford Companion to Wine'