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Sierra Cantabria Rioja Reserva 2012
91
Our Score
93
Jeb Dunnuck
91
Vinous, Josh Raynolds
(9/2018) "(raised in a 50/50 combination of new and used French and American oak barrels, 20% new, for 18 months) Deep, bright-rimmed ruby color. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red fruits and fresh flowers, along with vanilla, mocha and pipe tobacco flourishes. Juicy and appealingly sweet, offering supple raspberry and cherry-vanilla flavors and a hint of smokiness that builds as the wine opens up. Finishes supple and very long, with slow-building tannins and resonating florality. Drinking Window: 2020 - 2026."
(9/2018) "(raised in a 50/50 combination of new and used French and American oak barrels, 20% new, for 18 months) Deep, bright-rimmed ruby color. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red fruits and fresh flowers, along with vanilla, mocha and pipe tobacco flourishes. Juicy and appealingly sweet, offering supple raspberry and cherry-vanilla flavors and a hint of smokiness that builds as the wine opens up. Finishes supple and very long, with slow-building tannins and resonating florality. Drinking Window: 2020 - 2026."
$
2499
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Sierra Cantabria Rioja Reserva 2012
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 10 | (847) 277-0033 |
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| Chicago | 13 | (773) 489-3454 |
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| Highland Park | 17 | (847) 831-1049 |
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Dominio del Aguila "Picaro del Aguila" Vinas Viejas Ribera del Duero 2016
93+
Wine Advocate
(8/31/2018) "The youngest of the released wines I tasted is a red-the 2016 Picaro del Aguila Tinto. It is from what they consider to be one of the best and freshest vintages in recent times. This is produced with the vines from the warmer parts of La Aguilera, a cold place to start with (and in a cooler year). The old vines are planted with a mix that is dominated by Tempranillo but also contains some 5% other grapes. All the grapes are picked and fermented together with full clusters and natural yeasts in concrete and stainless steel vats. It matured in oak barrels for 13 months. This is fragrant, expressive, open, aromatic and really attractive. The palate is really balanced, with great freshness, fine tannins and a very pleasant mouthfeel-supple, balanced and with great depth. This is the best version of this bottling so far, and it seems like 2016 could be a great overall vintage, based on some other wines I sampled from cask (many of them have an extended elevage). 21,550 bottles and 624 magnums were filled unfiltered and unfined in November 2017. Drink Date: 2018 - 2024."
(8/31/2018) "The youngest of the released wines I tasted is a red-the 2016 Picaro del Aguila Tinto. It is from what they consider to be one of the best and freshest vintages in recent times. This is produced with the vines from the warmer parts of La Aguilera, a cold place to start with (and in a cooler year). The old vines are planted with a mix that is dominated by Tempranillo but also contains some 5% other grapes. All the grapes are picked and fermented together with full clusters and natural yeasts in concrete and stainless steel vats. It matured in oak barrels for 13 months. This is fragrant, expressive, open, aromatic and really attractive. The palate is really balanced, with great freshness, fine tannins and a very pleasant mouthfeel-supple, balanced and with great depth. This is the best version of this bottling so far, and it seems like 2016 could be a great overall vintage, based on some other wines I sampled from cask (many of them have an extended elevage). 21,550 bottles and 624 magnums were filled unfiltered and unfined in November 2017. Drink Date: 2018 - 2024."
$
2499
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Dominio del Aguila "Picaro del Aguila" Vinas Viejas Ribera del Duero 2016
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 7 | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | Out of stock | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | Out of stock | (847) 831-1049 |
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Orben Rioja 2015
93
Wine Spectator
(10/15/2018) "This big red has a plush texture that wraps around muscular tannins. Plum and currant flavors mingle with licorice, cola and forest floor notes, with balsamic acidity for freshness. A burly wine, but harmonious. Best from 2020 through 2035."
(10/15/2018) "This big red has a plush texture that wraps around muscular tannins. Plum and currant flavors mingle with licorice, cola and forest floor notes, with balsamic acidity for freshness. A burly wine, but harmonious. Best from 2020 through 2035."
$
2499
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Orben Rioja 2015
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | Out of stock | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | 13 | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | 9 | (847) 831-1049 |
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Joan d'Aguera "Finca l'Argata" Montsant 2016
Special price on this Exciting "Natural" Wine!
94
Wine Advocate
(4/27/2018) "The 2016 Finca l'Argata is now pure Garnacha from 40- to 60-year-old vines on sandy limestone soils. It fermented with full clusters and natural yeasts and matured in oak barrels for 15 to 16 months. It made me jump from my seat. With its light color and subtle and perfumed nose, it made me think of an elegant, ripe, perfumed version of a Chateau Rayas, nuanced, with some beef blood and meat notes. There's some complexity, but it's in need of a little more time in bottle (it was only bottled three weeks before I tasted it) and will develop even more nuances. The palate is medium-bodied but compact, with a solid structure, freshness and concentration, saline, ripe but with lightness, rustic and pretty. This is a superb Mediterranean Garnacha, a true revelation. 14,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2018. Drink Date: 2018 - 2022"
(4/27/2018) "The 2016 Finca l'Argata is now pure Garnacha from 40- to 60-year-old vines on sandy limestone soils. It fermented with full clusters and natural yeasts and matured in oak barrels for 15 to 16 months. It made me jump from my seat. With its light color and subtle and perfumed nose, it made me think of an elegant, ripe, perfumed version of a Chateau Rayas, nuanced, with some beef blood and meat notes. There's some complexity, but it's in need of a little more time in bottle (it was only bottled three weeks before I tasted it) and will develop even more nuances. The palate is medium-bodied but compact, with a solid structure, freshness and concentration, saline, ripe but with lightness, rustic and pretty. This is a superb Mediterranean Garnacha, a true revelation. 14,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2018. Drink Date: 2018 - 2022"
$
2399
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Joan d'Aguera "Finca l'Argata" Montsant 2016
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 10 | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | Out of stock | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | 3 | (847) 831-1049 |
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Carlos Serres Rioja Gran Reserva 2010
92
Our Score
93
Wine Enthusiast
(2/1/2018) "Editors' Choice - The 2010 harvest will go down as one of Rioja's greats, and that means wines like this $25 Gran Reserva can be excellent and affordable. It has a nose of mocha, smoke and earthy berry fruits. The palate is layered and texturally complex, while flavors of root beer, baking spice, dried cherry and plum spread out on a smooth finish that is just right in terms of residual tannins and acid. Drink through 2030."
(2/1/2018) "Editors' Choice - The 2010 harvest will go down as one of Rioja's greats, and that means wines like this $25 Gran Reserva can be excellent and affordable. It has a nose of mocha, smoke and earthy berry fruits. The palate is layered and texturally complex, while flavors of root beer, baking spice, dried cherry and plum spread out on a smooth finish that is just right in terms of residual tannins and acid. Drink through 2030."
$
2299
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Carlos Serres Rioja Gran Reserva 2010
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 23 | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | 20 | (773) 489-3454 |
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| Highland Park | 31 | (847) 831-1049 |
Store Details |
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R. Lopez de Heredia "Vina Cubillo" Crianza Rioja 2010
93
Wine Advocate
95
James Suckling
(7/4/2019) "Cubillo is a very focused and quite crisp style of red that has spent three years in barrique and then in larger cask to wait for bottling, which happens two years before the expected release. The richness and depth of complex dried wood and spice here is seamlessly sewn into the dried red and dark cherries. The palate is pinned around a fresh-blackberry core that marries still sweet fruit to more savory style. Long and balanced. The tannins are fine yet assertive. It freshens into the finish nicely. Drink or hold."
(7/4/2019) "Cubillo is a very focused and quite crisp style of red that has spent three years in barrique and then in larger cask to wait for bottling, which happens two years before the expected release. The richness and depth of complex dried wood and spice here is seamlessly sewn into the dried red and dark cherries. The palate is pinned around a fresh-blackberry core that marries still sweet fruit to more savory style. Long and balanced. The tannins are fine yet assertive. It freshens into the finish nicely. Drink or hold."
$
2299
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for R. Lopez de Heredia "Vina Cubillo" Crianza Rioja 2010
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 23 | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | Out of stock | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | 10 | (847) 831-1049 |
Store Details |
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Bodegas Albamar Rias Baixas Albarino 2018
Wonderfully delicious, this fresh, clean, salty, high acid, high mineral Albarino is poured by the glass at Alinea! Very good stuff.
91
Our Score
95
James Suckling
(7/26/2019) "Beautifully fresh and attractive pears in a ripe and mouthwatering mode. Hints of peaches, too. The palate has an incredibly juicy and mineral feel with such pure ripe peaches and a fresh, sustained finish that holds so long. Drink now."
(7/26/2019) "Beautifully fresh and attractive pears in a ripe and mouthwatering mode. Hints of peaches, too. The palate has an incredibly juicy and mineral feel with such pure ripe peaches and a fresh, sustained finish that holds so long. Drink now."
Local availability for Bodegas Albamar Rias Baixas Albarino 2018
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | Out of stock | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | 11 | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | Out of stock | (847) 831-1049 |
Store Details |
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Alfredo Maestro "El Marciano" Ribera del Duero Old Vine Garnacha 2018
91+
Our Score
(2/2020) From 70-year-old Garnacha vines grown on decomposed granite soils at 1,150m elevation, the "El Marciano" is pure and powerful. Destemmed, fermented with wild yeasts and raised in steel vat, the wine is rustic and earthy but with a notably fruited core. Black cherry cola and rhubarb are supported by notes of crushed rocks, dried leaves and birch. Great balance that leans toward a full body with fine tannins and electric acidity, this is Garnacha as it should be.
(2/2020) From 70-year-old Garnacha vines grown on decomposed granite soils at 1,150m elevation, the "El Marciano" is pure and powerful. Destemmed, fermented with wild yeasts and raised in steel vat, the wine is rustic and earthy but with a notably fruited core. Black cherry cola and rhubarb are supported by notes of crushed rocks, dried leaves and birch. Great balance that leans toward a full body with fine tannins and electric acidity, this is Garnacha as it should be.
$
2199
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Alfredo Maestro "El Marciano" Ribera del Duero Old Vine Garnacha 2018
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | Out of stock | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | Out of stock | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | Out of stock | (847) 831-1049 |
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Daniel Ramos Kapi Amphorae 2016
91
Our Score
(3/2019) This beautiful Garnacha from old vines in the high-elevation, steep-sloped region of Sierra de Gredos is spontaneously fermented and then aged in clay amphorae. It is fresh but full with spicy aromas of dried violets and roses, with a very pronounced note of granite and rocky earth, followed by a juicy palate of wild raspberries and black cherries. A more perfect balance of earth and fruit is hard to find at this price. Drink now or hold for a few years.
(3/2019) This beautiful Garnacha from old vines in the high-elevation, steep-sloped region of Sierra de Gredos is spontaneously fermented and then aged in clay amphorae. It is fresh but full with spicy aromas of dried violets and roses, with a very pronounced note of granite and rocky earth, followed by a juicy palate of wild raspberries and black cherries. A more perfect balance of earth and fruit is hard to find at this price. Drink now or hold for a few years.
$
2199
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Daniel Ramos Kapi Amphorae 2016
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | Out of stock | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | 7 | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | Out of stock | (847) 831-1049 |
Store Details |
We do our best to provide accurate inventory information on the products we offer. However, items that are in high demand will occasionally sell out before the inventory can be updated.
Vinedos Ponce "P.F." Manchuela Bobal 2017
94
Wine Advocate
(4/30/2019) "The 2017 P.F., which is the acronym for Pie Franco (ungrafted), is pure Bobal from old, ungrafted vines from a low-yielding vintage. The vines are over 90 years of age and are planted at 900 meters in altitude on granite soils. This fermented with full clusters and indigenous yeasts in open-top 4,500-liter oak vats and matured in 600-liter French oak barrels for ten months. This is the wine that shows more complexity and depth, showing the pure character of Bobal on deep sandy soils at high altitude, surrounded by aromatic herbs. The tannins feel quite polished, certainly less rustic than in earlier vintages. This is a mineral, powerful and spicy wine with a mixture of rusticity and complexity, darker than La Estrecha. 8,500 bottles were filled in July 2018. Drink Date 2019 - 2026."
(4/30/2019) "The 2017 P.F., which is the acronym for Pie Franco (ungrafted), is pure Bobal from old, ungrafted vines from a low-yielding vintage. The vines are over 90 years of age and are planted at 900 meters in altitude on granite soils. This fermented with full clusters and indigenous yeasts in open-top 4,500-liter oak vats and matured in 600-liter French oak barrels for ten months. This is the wine that shows more complexity and depth, showing the pure character of Bobal on deep sandy soils at high altitude, surrounded by aromatic herbs. The tannins feel quite polished, certainly less rustic than in earlier vintages. This is a mineral, powerful and spicy wine with a mixture of rusticity and complexity, darker than La Estrecha. 8,500 bottles were filled in July 2018. Drink Date 2019 - 2026."
$
1999
Discount:
750 ML
Local availability for Vinedos Ponce "P.F." Manchuela Bobal 2017
| Location | Approximate Bottles | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington | 4 | (847) 277-0033 |
Store Details |
| Chicago | 60+ | (773) 489-3454 |
Store Details |
| Highland Park | 21 | (847) 831-1049 |
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We do our best to provide accurate inventory information on the products we offer. However, items that are in high demand will occasionally sell out before the inventory can be updated.
