Spanish White Wine

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

Lower ABV Master of Wine Andreas Kubach and his partners tend their 300 small parcels of old-vines in the Basque highlands of Rioja Alavesa with a simple goal: to capture the character of the region, villages in the region, and... 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

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

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 Terrific Albarino here – crisp, mineral, tangy, salty and mouthwateringly long. The pergola-trained vines are just off the Atlantic coast on granite soils, both amping up the minerality and salty refreshment. The... Read More

Lower ABV Age has a powerful influence on wine. Here there’s a bit of bottle age and a lot of vine-age from 90 year-old Albarino growing in sandy granite soils near the Atlantic. There’s a richness to the stone fruit... 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

Organic/Bio So much more sophisticated that what you think of as Cava that the family has opted out of using that name at all. Wine Advocate's 92 review captures it nicely: Has a pale and bright color with some green tints... Read More

Lower ABV As JancisRobinson.com said of the 2023, For me, exactly what a well-made Albariño is supposed to taste like. Which is to say, kind of like Chablis but from Galicia! It's super pithy and crisp with a core of... Read More