Top Scoring Spanish Selection from our Stocks

Before heading off to Burgundy for the harvest, I managed to squeeze in a delightful holiday in Spain a country that never ceases to enchant me, especially during the sun-soaked season. The language is like a melody, the culinary landscape is endlessly diverse*, and the wines… oh, the wines are often the unsung heroes of the wine world.

Hence why I’m excited to offer you a taste of Spain with an exceptional lineup from some of the finest bodegas, featuring wines rated from 96 to 99 points. Among them:

• Álvaro Palacios Quiñón de Valmira 2018: “This has to be the finest vintage of Quiñón de Valmira to date.” – 98 points, Luis Gutiérrez
• Espectacular del Montsant 2019: “This is truly spectacular.” – 99 points, Luis Gutiérrez
• Bodegas Mauro, Terreus Paraje de Cueva Baja 2018: “There is a lot of purity in this wine” “This is among the finest vintages of Terreus.” – 98 points, Luis Gutiérrez

The value is incredible, and quantities are limited, so please let us know if you’d like to secure a few bottles!

With best wishes,
Manon

*If you go to Rioja, please do not miss the city of Logroño a little San Sebastian that has kept all its authenticity with its narrow streets filled with tapas bars!

The Offer:
Subject to remaining unsold. Immediately available from our SG cellars.

2012 Vega Sicilia, Unico
SGD $2,700 ($2,943 inc GST) per case (1×6/OWC) – 2 cases available

97 Points James Suckling
“I like the intensity to this, with dark tar and smoky notes followed by graphite, tobacco, bitter cacao and dark fruit. Powerful yet tight and compact, with firm and polished tannins. Structured and so long. Tasted from magnum. Try after 2023.”

2018 Alvaro Palacios, Quinon de Valmira
SGD $475 ($517.75 inc GST) per bottle (75cl) – 10 bottles available

98 Points Luis Gutiérrez
“The 2018 Quiñón de Valmira is the only wine produced under Álvaro’s personal label and sold through different channels than the rest of wines produced at the Palacios Remondo winery in Alfaro. 2018 is one of the best vintages in the zone in recent times. In 2018, they used some 30% full clusters that were foot trodden for the natural fermentation in oak vats with punch-downs and a maceration of 66 days. It went through malolactic in oak barriques and matured in oak foudres and bocoyes for 18 months. It’s pale, translucent and quite light, ethereal, perfumed and floral, citrus notes (peel) with class and elegance, and it has fresh and crunchy flavors of pomegranate and watermelon that make you salivate. There are tons of spring flowers and aromatic herbs, like walking in the countryside on a warm spring day. It has an intoxicating nose, and the mouthfeel is delicate with incredible inner strength. This has to be the finest vintage of Quiñón de Valmira to date. 4,400 bottles were filled in April 2020.”

2018 Bodegas Mauro, Terreus Paraje de Cueva Baja
SGD $155 ($168.95 inc GST) per bottle – 3 bottles available

98 Points Luis Gutiérrez
“The 2018 Terreus Paraje de Cueva Baja was cropped from a cool vintage when the vineyard saw some snow and a slow ripening of the grapes, which were harvested on the 16th of September under perfect conditions. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and daily pump-overs, followed by malolactic in barrel and 20 months in French barrique. There is a lot of purity in this wine, and it shows the effect of the cooler year. They are increasing the percentage of used barrique, and the oak feels better integrated. It’s a very serious wine, with depth, complexity and persistence. I think there’s more and more effect from the limestone soils in the wine (texture!) as the élevage marks the wine is a softer way. This is among the finest vintages of Terreus. 10,066 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2020.”

2019 Dolio, Ribeira Sacra
SGD $480 ($523.20 inc GST) per case (1×6/OWC) – 8 cases available

96 Points James Suckling
“Very subtle yet intense nose. Iron, nutmeg, white pepper, wild berries, savory grilled herbs and some oranges. Fresh, silky tannins seep through the berries and white pepper flavors. Extremely long and mouthwatering finish that goes on and on. Drink or hold.”

2019 Espectacle del Montsant
SGD $1,320 ($1,438.80 inc GST) per case (1×12/OC) – 2 cases available

99 Points Luis Gutiérrez
“It’s always an exciting moment tasting a new vintage of the wine from one of the most beautiful vineyards in Montsant, and the 2019 Espectacle del Montsant didn’t disappoint. It’s always Mediterranean, heady and ripe, decadent and hedonistic. 2019 was a warm and quite classical vintage in the zone, with good ripeness (the wine’s label lists 15.5% alcohol), and the wine is hedonistic, nuanced and complex, with very good acidity, which is one of the characteristics that makes this vintage so complete. Despite everything, the wine is medium to full-bodied and comes through as perfumed and ethereal. They do long macerations and long aging in foudre. 2019 is a very serious vintage for this wine; it’s a little closed and needs time in the glass, and it’s tight and seamless, a little austere for what this wine usually is. This is truly spectacular. 6,500 bottles produced.”

2020 Bodega Contador, Alma de Contador Rioja
SGD $750 ($817.50 inc GST) per case (1×6/OWC) – 8 cases available

97 Points Luis Gutiérrez
“The new red blend 2020 Alma Contador is going to be sold mostly through the négociants from Bordeaux. It was produced with grapes from three vineyards in San Vicente de la Sonsierra at different altitudes and is a blend of Tempranillo with 8% Garnacha with limited yields because of mildew. It matured in new French barriques for 20 months. He wanted a more classical image and perhaps a more classical profile of wine. It’s perfumed and floral, with notes of aromatic herbs, a little balsamic and quite showy, with very fine tannins and freshness, as he used more grapes from the higher-altitude zones. It’s powerful and elegant, and in a way it reminds me of the style of the initial vintages of La Cueva de Contador; it’s clean and elegant. It’s 14.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.55. It’s very young but still drinkable, as the quality of the tannins is very good. I think this is the one wine I’d buy from their portfolio if I could only buy one. It transported me to the wines from the early 2000s. 10,000 bottles produced.”

2020 Matallana, Ribera del Duero
SGD $450 ($490.50 inc GST) per case (1×6/OWC) – 10 cases available

96 Points Luis Gutiérrez
“There is a change in the 2020 Matallana, as they have included Jean-Guillaume Prats (ex-Cos d’Estournel, ex-Lafite…) in the Ribera del Duero project, and the wine is going to be sold for the first time with this vintage through the négociant system of La Place de Bordeaux. The grapes from the five villages (mentioned but then crossed out on the label) were picked between the sixth and 18th of October and fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel and oak vats. The wine matured in French oak barrels for 14 months. This is a little riper than the 2019 I tasted next to it, despite both being 14.5% alcohol (at least on the label). It follows the path of seriousness and austerity of the last few vintages and has a very calcareous mouthfeel with chalky tannins that lift up the finish. 19,624 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2022.”

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Offer ends on Wednesday 20th November 2024 l No further discount l Immediate payment required l Delivery fees ($32.72) waived for purchases above $500 before GST excluding airports | Cancellation of orders not allowed l Orders to be collected/delivered upon stock availability l Goods left uncollected may incur storage charges | Offered Ex-Singapore & subject to remaining unsold