Spanish Wine between $10 and $25

It's hard to make Garnacha Blanca with verve, freshness and minerality, but Anna Espelt does just that here with 20% Garnacha Gris and vines near the Catalonian coast. Subtle stone fruit and citrus notes are cloaked in notes... Read More

Benito Santos helped create the Rias Baixas DO in the 1980s, and the winery's Albarinio are certainly classic. This Godello from nearby Monterrei is a beauty, too. The aromas and flavors of pear drops, crisp apple and powdered... Read More

If you’re looking for something to drink with a burger, stew or meat-laden pizza, give this a whirl. It’s 100% Monastrell (Mourvedre in France) from a hot place and cool vintage. The combination is terrific. The ripe... Read More

You'd expect Toro Tempranillo to be dark, super-ripe, and full of chewy tannins, but here Toro has been tamed a bit! Plenty of rich fruit that stays fresh and an easy, silky, texture that flows nicely. As Wine Enthusiast says,... Read More

A classic, old-fashioned, Rioja from the winery's best vines in Rioja Alavesa and a few prime plots in Rioja Alta. It's 100% Tempranillo aged 24 months in American and French oak barriques. A bit more savory and unami-laden... Read More

A classic, old-fashioned, Rioja from the winery's best vines in Rioja Alavesa and a few prime plots in Rioja Alta. It's 100% Tempranillo aged 24 months in American and French oak barriques. With more than a decade in bottle,... Read More

The winery describes this as “Freshness, joy and youth in your glass of wine,” and that pretty much sums up this wine. Perfect for weeknights when you want to enjoy a bottle over a couple of nights. The vibrancy is... Read More

This isn’t fancy pants Rioja, but one whiff and you’ll be glad you took it home. Fragrant red fruit with a piercing freshness is consistent throughout your sipping journey. Not too big and not too lean, this sits right... Read More

Like kumquat, Seckel pea and/or underripe Geengage plum serviced up with a salty, mineral, finish and burst of orange oil on the dry, talky, finish? Of course you do! And you’ll love this very sophisticated and fresh expression... Read More

Cuatro Rayas was founded in 1935 to do one thing - make terrific Verdejo. Back in the beginning, that meant a wine that would seem really...let's say exotic...to us, a white wine aged in glass demijohns in the hot Spanish... Read More

A long-time Rioja classic, the Cune Crianza adds a lovely depth of ripe fruit to Rioja’s classic notes of tobacco, herb, and spice. Lovely with lamb or even solo. As James Suckling says in the 90 point review, A fruity and... Read More

A Catalonian Vermouth that packs a HUGE punch of Christmas flavors! It's made from white grapes and 19 botanicals, including vanilla, orange peel, anise, cardamon, nutmeg, laurel, oregano, fennel, and sage. It's sweet,... Read More

Organic/Bio When everyone else in Rueda was planting crummy grapes to replace those devastated by phylloxera, the farmers at what is now this outstanding Rueda winery just kept tending their vines in the cool, sandy, soils between... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV It's hard to believe how much delicious flavor can be packed into a wine of so little pretension - and so little alcohol (just 12.5%)! The main grape here is Mencia, although a half-dozen other varieties... Read More

Organic/Bio As Vinous wrote a few years ago, this is one of the top estates in Tarragona, up there with the big players in Montsant and Priorat...At the entry level, the quality here is astonishing. I’ve often found myself... Read More

Lower ABV In Spain’s Basque region, the Hondarrabi Zuri grape gives a tart and salty wine enlivened by a touch of spritz leftover from fermentation and time resting on the lees. This is a great example, with crunchy peach,... Read More

Lower ABV From Valencia, this is a playful Spanish red that leads with ripe Garnacha (80%) fruit balanced by a touch of savory complexity from Syrah (20%). It’s done with 50% whole clusters, which add some herbal notes and... Read More

Two brothers make a range of bold, rich and powerful Tinto de Toro - a clone of Tempranillo - on family lands along the Duero River. This is their younger, more open, version and it's delicious. Suckling.com describes it well... Read More

Organic/BioThe name of the winery here is actually Vins El Cep, meaning roughly Wines from the vineyard. Unlike most Cava producrers, Maite Esteve only works with grapes she grows herself - here a blend of 50%Xarel·Lo,... Read More

Tempranillo can do lots of things and here it’s all about easy drinking summer fun. Picked fully ripe and done all in concrete, it’s brimming with bright cherry and juicy cranberry fruit but avoids “fruitiness”... Read More

White Tempranillo was just discovered in an old vineyard around 30 years ago, and it's still fairly rare in Rioja and more rare still bottled all by itself. But delicious! This is all tank for freshness, showing lovely apricot,... Read More

Bierzo remains one of Spain’s most exciting regions and Mencia here delivers a perfect mix of ripe fruit and herbal complexity. This no-oak, super fresh, bottling is, as Wine Advocate says in the 92 point review, “among... Read More

If you want to visit the most exciting wine region in Spain right now, go to Serria de Gredos, the mountains to the west of Madrid. This is the land of old vines, abandoned vineyards resurrected by folks like Commando G and Daniel... Read More

Vermouth Perucchi has been made in Catalonia since 1886 – but only recently imported into the United States. We think it is a delicious, new (to us) treat at a very fair price!

Perruchi shows bold spice aromas of fresh gingerbread,... Read More

Organic/Bio This young estate, founded 1999, works only with 30-60 year-old Tinto de Toro vines they farm organically and largely with horses, rather than tractors, providing plowing power. New and used French oak smooths Toro's... Read More