Made with 75% Tempranillo and 25% Graciano this is a limited edition of only 84,320 bottles! its got a herbaceous and red fruit aroma. There’s a plum and cherry hit on the taste buds, more cherry but subtle background flavours of other fruit, mainly plum but also a little redcurrant which have a good length. There’s definitely tannins, a little rough though which obscure the spice notes.

Have this with food and its better, you need food with a bite, a bit spicy to help soften the tannins and match the little bit of spice in the wine, in my case veggy fajitas.

At £13 a bottle its a bit pricey. A bronze medal winner at the Decanter World Wine Awards in 2019, its good but it should be under £10.

Rioja Vega 2016, Spain