Cillar De Silos, D.O Ribera del Duero

EQ derives its name from Quintana del Pidio, Silos' home town, so this is The Kid From Quintana. Up front meat/earth, with a rosehip lift; it's full soft and round through the mid-part and a nice sourberry close. Simple, delicious, correct and very, very good value for this appellation.

Tobacco and anise add complexity to earthy dark cherry – pure Ribera del Duero fruit with a brambly boysenberry and cassis lift. Mineral and savoury, masculine but in no way big, there’s only mid-level glycerol and fine, long, very mature tannins. A wonderful vintage.

Blueberry, tobacco and hung beef - it's gotta be Ribera! Well, good Ribera anyway ...With a pronouncedearthiness, '08's cool and precise in line, low in fructose, elegant and fine. Not a wine of bigness, it's a lovely,pure wine of very high quality and beautifully composed. Previous releases have been labelled ‘Crianza’.

Cherry clafoutis and glorious Ribera dirt smells … dang these Silos cats are cool! Spicy-sweet-sour berry thrills with tobacco, flowers, dirt, sky and more, and an aching thread of volatility gives the rosey-nose arc and reach. Such things repeat in a palate which is spare, suggestive, juicy and crisp, and unbelievably good. Redolent with hope in the face of experience and beautifully composed.

Fancy, fine and beautifully correct wine, neither big nor over-powering as such. Where Torresilo is floral and lush, Flor is more dark and masculine, linear and reserved-sort of the Burgundy v. Bordeaux argument about Tempranillo's natural style in a sister-brother face-off!