Rioja - Red Wines

Back in the early 1990s, this carbonic maceration blend of Tempranillo and 5% Viura was the only wine that the De Miguel family made. Foot-trodden and fermented in concrete, it's just a wonderful drink, busting with arom...(read more)

A lovely Crianza from Bodegas Ruconia. This is a firm favourite at L&S. Lots of lively cherry fruit wrapped up in attractive vanilla oak. Medium bodied, the wine holds a good high tone throughout. Another Rioja that...(read more)

We really love Sandra's high elevation Rioja and this is another cracker. At 400 Metres up you start to get wines with greater freshness and precision, fragrant and detailed, this has damson, blueberry and dark cherry fr...(read more)

This really is a superb vintage of this wine, so much to love in the more traditional Rioja style here, liquorice, coffee, meat juices, leather, redcurrants, herbs and cedar. But the palate then delivers everything in su...(read more)

Sourced from 30 different parcels in Ábalos, originally owned by Arturo de Miguel's mother's side of the family, this is a great value introduction to the bodega's reds. Lilac, violet and wild thyme aromas lead yo...(read more)

The Raposo fruit comes from two old organic vineyards in Villabuena de Alava, at 500 metres. 100 years old and 60 years old. Sited in a gentle Valley the vines here are protected from too much of the North wind, but keep...(read more)

In the space of just six vintages, this superb Garnacha has developed a world-wide following. Sourced from vineyards over 650 metres in Rivas de Tereso, this is foudre fermented and clay amphora aged, with violet, laurel...(read more)

Finca de Los Locos is often the chalkiest and most refreshing of Arturo de Miguel's reds and that's certainly the case here. Sourced from a parcel at 560 metres in Baños de Ebro, this is a well-judged cuvée...(read more)

A single parcel at 620 metres supplies the grapes for Roberto Oliván's slightly funky, left-field blend of Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha, Viura and Malvasía. Firm, sappy and spicy, this was entirely ferment...(read more)

2017 was not an easy harvest, but it produced some beautiful and classical wines, like the 2017 Viña Ardanza Reserva […] It's ripe and aromatic, tertiary, with 14.5% alcohol and mellow acidity, a medium-bodied pal...(read more)

El Abundillano - a water fountain - is the name of the parcel as well as the wine here, located at 620 metres. Picked late, this old-vine blend of Garnacha with 10% Tempranillo and Malvasía is high in alcohol yet...(read more)

Three very old parcels between 70 and 80 years' old supply the grapes for this whole bunch-fermented cuvée of more or less equal parts Garnacha, Tempranillo and Monastrell. Serious, sappy and tannic, this wouldn't...(read more)