Wine Reviews

Bodegas Paternina were founded, originally in the small Riojan town of Ollauri, more than a hundred years ago by Federico Paternina. They have denoted for several generations of consumers one of the country’s most well-known wine-producing brands and at the time they were one of the wineries pioneering the use of machinery and large facilities,...
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One of the Portuguese wineries that is currently most in vogue and which, although it was officially founded in 1998, dates its wine-producing history back to 1877 when Doña Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, an illustrious figure and a fine artisan of high quality wines in Portugal, decided to establish one of the best Quintas in the Douro Superior...
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Although they have been settled for more than fifty years in La Horra, Burgos province, the Sastres did not get set up as a winery until the beginning of the 1990s when Severiano Sastre’s son, Rafael, founded the winery as we know it today based on a specific philosophy: to produce limited wines with unlimited care. Sustainable grape-growing that...
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Castillo de Perelada is the Empordà’s history in the making and its credentials are very evident: a magnificent set of historic monuments topped by the medieval castle, which is a symbol of the region, the wine museum, modern and well-functioning installations, an ongoing programme of research and recovery of indigenous varieties, and an extensive...
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Located in the village of Valdefinjas, in the province of Zamora, Numanthia was set up with a firm commitment to creating robust, profound and very flavoursome wines, expressing the potential of the Tinta de Toro (the local Tempranillo clone) that originates from old vineyards, aged between seventy and a hundred years old, with some reaching over...
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In the village location of Páganos, near Laguardia, at the foot of the Sierra de Cantabria Mountains, the Eguren family started up a project in 1998 to create a unique underground bodega, carved out beneath a vineyard lying on very poor soils, clay-loam in texture and with a high mineral content that comes out in the wines. The sole variety to...
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Gaia Wines was started up in 1994 by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos and Leon Karatsalos with the clear intention of showing everybody the potential of Greece’s old grape strains and placing the small, very fragmented wine-growing regions of the Peloponnese firmly on the map. Today Gaia has two wineries located at Nemea and another on the lovely island of...
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Clos de l’Obac started out in the Priorat region in 1979 under the guidance of Carles Pastrana who, along with such important names as René Barbier, Álvaro Palacios, Daphne Glorian and Josep Lluís Pérez, was one of the pioneers who marked a turning point at the end of the eighties, favouring quality, not previously found in that wine-producing...
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Terre di Leone is a small winery that has gained renown in the last few years as one of the leading producers of Valpolicella and Amarone. Although a relative newcomer by European standards, its wines have gone from strength to strength, establishing a new, easy-drinking, fruit-forward and fresh style of Valpolicella. The majority of the grapes...
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