The wine shows a deep, shiny ruby colour with a slightly opaque core. The nose is delicate and restrained, it will benefit from being decanted. The bouquet opens up with nuances of crunchy red and black cherries, hints of black plums and prunes, subtle notes of cinnamon and nutmeg in the background. The palate is…
The wine shows a deep ruby colour with a brightening rim. The nose is vivid and intense, revealing nuances of sour red cherries, a touch of ripe forest raspberries and juicy strawberries, a hint of vanilla and sweet spices in the background. The palate is juicy, rich and enveloping, offering notes of crunchy red and…
The wine shows a medium deep ruby-purple colour. The nose is intense, slightly dusty, revealing notes of red and black plums, blackberry, a touch of green pepper, pungent spices like black and Sichuan peppers, notes of cinnamon and cloves. The palate is powerful, heady, offering a lot of concentration, bold, sticky tannins and warming sensation,…
The wine shows a deep purple colour. Notes of blueberries, blackberries and black cherries are underlaid by nuances of vanilla, cinnamon, a touch of cacao and milk chocolate. The palate is dense, revealing a lot of concentration and power, grippy, powerful, sticky tannins, a certain elegance and freshness despite the warming alcohol. Compared to the…
The wine shows a deep purple colour. The nose is dense and fruity, quite exuberant, revealing notes of cherry compote, ripe blackberries, dark chocolate, sweet baking spices and a touch of menthol. The palate offers a nice, refreshing acidity, powerful fruit concentration, pronounced oaky character, a certain finesse and grippy but well-managed tannins. The wine…
The nose is racy, revealing a fine intensity and a lovely finesse of grain. There are notes of bright dark berries, pulpy cherry and, more slightly, rose, olive, combined with hints of local garrigue, as well as hints of laurel, blond tobacco leaf and fine spices (in the background). The palate reveals freshness, minerality, density,…
The nose is fruity and shows gourmandize and fine creaminess. There are notes of creamy redcurrant, pulpy raspberry and slightly blackcurrant combined with hints of creamy/acidic plum combined with hints of sense of place, olive tree and a discreet almost orange peel. The palate is mineral with freshness, minerality, fine racy tension and a fine…
On the nose, aromatic and offers a nice finesse of grain, some power (in delicacy), a little concentration as well as a fine intensity and a nice spicy side. It reveals notes of small wild red berries, bursting blackcurrant and more lightly cherry combined with hints of plum blossom, cherry pit as well as fine…
On the nose, fruity and offers ripe/pulpy fruit, gourmandise, control and some depth. It reveals notes of ripe cherry, pulpy wild blackcurrant and more lightly pulpy berries combined with hints of spice, dry herbs/almost dry garrigue as well as fine points of plum, cherry blossom, pepper and a discreet hint of dry soil. On the…
Telmo Rodriguez is considered as one of the great Spanish winemakers, one filled with ambition to find ancient, distinguished vineyards to resuscitate. Ladeiras do Xil is the Galician vineyards of Telmo Rodriguez, located in the Valdeorras area in between Ribeira Sacra to the west and Bierzo to the east. The specific parcels of the vineyards…