Navarro Lopez, D.O. Valdepeñas
This winery started as a simple family affair, founded in 1904 by Don Juan Megía Sánchez, and passed through the generations. In 1989 Doroteo Navarro Donado acquired the business and began transforming it into the modern, entity that it is today.
Navarro Lopez sources fruit from its own 173 hectares of vineyards, of which 150 hectares are planted to Tempranillo. Contrary to the rest of our portfolio this wine is made under the older style methods. But in saying that the oak is not too drastically pronounced and daggy.
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Valdapenas |
$20.00 |
12 |
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Simple, cheap, correct. Light cola, cherry, animal hide, red fruits and suprisingly well balanced and developed palate spread. A mid-weight crowd pleaser, not a brain teaser. |
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Valdapenas |
$25.00 |
12 |
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Billy tea, cola, meaty varietal characters; balanced oak/age adds bloody, iron filings earthiness and savoury stuffing on the palate. Our version of "Rioja" (in the traditional sense, meaning the older, flatter oaky-dusty style of traditional Spanish) - however, the reason we stock it is for it's clean varietal fruit character, and no daggy-oxidised oakiness … sorta old-fashioned BUT fresh and correct. |
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