Wine in Black Spaans Best Buy-pakket met bekroonde wijn

Gilbert & Gaillard

Wine Enthusiast

This dark-ruby-colored wine has a bouquet of blackberry, juniper and saddle leather. A pleasant leathery note continues in the mouth, accompanied by fruits of the wood, Valencia orange, milk chocolate and violet flavors. Bold acidity and velvety tannins carry into an enduring finish.

Decanter

Our Best in Show journey across Northern Spain continues with a 2020 Bierzo, grown just across the provincial border from Galicia into Castilla y Léon. It’s another zone of steep slopes and old vines – the variety in this case being Mencia (known as Jaen in Portugal’s Dão region). This wine is deep black-red in colour and vivacious and urgent in aroma: wild plums mingled with the woodland scents of leaf, copse and forest floor. The palate is fruit-packed and vibrant, vigorous with an energy derived both from ripe acidity and fresh though smooth tannins; look out, too, for a stony, bitter-edged finish perhaps derived from the region’s slate soils. Wonderful drinking now in the flush of youth, but fruit of this quality will hold well for a few years yet.

Decanter World Wine Awards

Wine Enthusiast

This dark-garnet-colored wine offers a bouquet of black currant, anisette and sage. Blackberry, cassis, dark-chocolate, violet and clove flavors are joined by a note of marjoram. Tannins start out feather light, slowly fill the palate, and linger for a while.

James Suckling

Dusty blackberries with some blue fruit, stones and spices. Nicely chewy and tight on the full-bodied palate, loaded with fine-grained tannins and juicy, almost tart fruit.