Sarah Jane Evans MW, Christine Allen and Beth Willard tasted 159 wines, with 13 Excellent and 67 Extremely beneficial.
Spanish indigenous reds panel tasting scores
159 wines tasted
Distinctive 0
Excellent 13
Extremely beneficial 67
Really useful 72
Counseled 4
Truthful 3
Poor 0
Entry standards: producers and UK brokers have been invited to submit current-release crimson wines created from any Spanish grape besides Tempranillo, encompassing single varietals or blends together with at the least 85% of 1 indigenous Spanish grape, the remaining 15% additionally of native varieties
How do you method a tasting with 20 or extra completely different varieties from all throughout Spain? In our case, with pleasure and anticipation. The intention of this tasting was to showcase the thrilling vary of native crimson varieties to find in Spain. The tasting revealed the mosaic that’s Spain: in terrain, in local weather and in panorama – and in range of types.
Our overriding verdict from the tasting is that Spain is the nation for explorers. Step exterior your ordinary selections on the wine listing, and you’ll be charmed. Half the wines right here scored 90 factors or above, and 13 of them have been rated Excellent (see beneath).
Scroll right down to see tasting notes and scores for the highest wines from the Spanish indigenous reds panel tasting
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Prime scoring Spanish indigenous reds
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The judges
Sarah Jane Evans MW is a Decanter contributing editor and Co-Chair of the Decanter World Wine Awards. Her newest e book The Wines of Central and Southern Spain is due out in January 2023.
Christine Allen is advertising director for wonderful wine distributor Maisons Marques et Domaines. With years of expertise in each on- and off-trade in addition to in wonderful wine, she is especially targeted on Outdated World areas, notably Spain, Portugal and Burgundy, and is a DWWA decide for Spain.
Beth Willard is concerned in sourcing wines for each the on- and off-trade within the UK, with a selected concentrate on Spain and Jap Europe. Previously shopping for supervisor at Direct Wines, she is a DWWA joint Regional Chair for Spain, and a member of Spain’s Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino.
