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Vintage	Producer	Product Name	Notes	Source	Score	Sell Sheet	Updated
2016	Bodegas Ordonez	Nisia	Made from 100% Verdejo, the 2016 Nisia is a vibrant, fresh, racy effort that has a touch citrus rind, flowers, and hints of steely minerality emerging from the glass. It's medium-bodied, balanced and vibrant, with bright acidity and plenty of texture. It's another versatile, high quality, well-made white that's a perfect tapas wine. This cuvée comes all from sandy soils and head pruned vines and was brought up in a mix of barrel and tank.	Jeb Dunnuck	90		2018-05-09
2016	Bodegas Y Vinedos Ilurce	Rio Madre	Made from 100% Graciano aged in neutral oak, the 2016 Rio Madre offers a ripe bouquet of black cherries, blackberries, dried flowers, leather, and damp earth. Rich and nicely concentrated, it's medium-bodied, well-balanced, and has a solid, layered texture as well as a great finish. It blossoms with time in the glass, has plenty of fruit and character, and is a rock-solid value.	Jeb Dunnuck	90		2018-05-09
2013	Ramirez de la Piscina	Reserva Seleccion	The 2013 Reserva Selección is a step up over the Reserve and offers more black cherry, cedarwood, spice, and leather aromas and flavors. Made from 100% Tempranillo aged 20 months in equal parts new French and American oak, it's medium to full-bodied, nicely concentrated, ripe and textured. It will keep for a decade or more. This is solid stuff.	Jeb Dunnuck	91		2018-05-09
2013	Ramirez de la Piscina	Reserva Seleccion	(aged for 16 months in a combination of French and American oak barrels and released after two years of bottle age) Bright violet. Spicy black and blue fruits, pungent flowers, roasted coffee and a hint of vanilla on the deeply perfumed nose. Juicy and expansive in the mouth, offering concentrated blackberry and bitter cherry flavors that turn sweeter on the back half. The vanilla and cherry notes linger on the spicy, persistent finish, which is shaped by supple, even tannins.	Vinous	91		2018-05-09
2014	Bodegas Ordonez	Zerran	(fermented in stainless steel tanks and then aged for ten months in used French oak barriques): Opaque purple. Fresh black and blue fruit aromas are sharpened by a smoky mineral nuance and a sexy flourish of fresh lavender. Sappy and seamless in texture, offering juicy boysenberry flavors and a jolt of enlivening minerality. Finishes silky, precise and very long, with lingering florality and harmonious tannins. There's pretty remarkable value here.	Vinous	91		2018-05-09
2016	Bodegas Ordonez	Nisia Las Suertes	A deeper, more serious wine compared to the straight Nisia cuvée, the 2016 Nisia Las Suertes is also 100% Verdejo and spent 12 months sur lie in a mix of French oak puncheons and demi-muids. It offers terrific notes of buttered citrus, pineapple, white flowers, mint, and hints of salty minerality. Vibrant, concentrated, and rich, yet with bright acidity and a great finish, it's a beautifully layered, balanced white that will shine on the table. It's impressive.	Jeb Dunnuck	92		2018-05-09
2010	Ramirez de la Piscina	Gran Reserva	The 2010 Gran Reserva is 100% Tempranillo from vineyards in Abalos and San Vicente de la Sonsierra that spent 24 months in new French and American oak. It's a deep, inky effort that's loaded with notions of blackcurrants, scorched earth, graphite, and lead pencil. Concentrated, rich, and full-bodied on the palate, with an awesome, expansive texture and sweet tannin, it's a seriously good, rich, concentrated effort that's going to benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and cruise for 10-15 years in the cellar.	Jeb Dunnuck	93		2018-05-09
2015	Bodegas Y Vinedos Ilurce	Rio Mazos	The 2015 Rio Mazos (100% Graciano aged in new French oak) is more classical in style and offers lots of black raspberry and cassis fruit as well as classy oak, leather, and cedar. Full-bodied, rounded, and sexy on the palate, with a gorgeous texture, it's another incredibly unique, yet sensational wine. It will keep for two decades.	Jeb Dunnuck	96		2018-05-09
2016	Robert Eymael Monchhof	Monchhof Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Kabinett	Juicy squirts of tropical pineapple, melon and tangerine burst from nose to finish in this zesty spry kabinett. While light in body and delicately textured, there’s a honeyed heft on the midpalate off set by dazzling streaks acidity and crystalline minerality.	Wine Enthusiast	92		2018-04-19
2016	Robert Eymael Monchhof	Monchhof Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese	Dusty mineral, salt and spice accent white peach and grapefruit in this lightfooted spätlese. Honeyed yet spine tingling with acidity, it finishes on a refreshingly green melon-rind note. Delicious now but should improve through 2026 and likely further.	Wine Enthusiast	92		2018-04-19