db’s Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay looks at the September releases on La Place from Spain, France, Austria and Germany. Spanish releases (red) This year has seen the new release of De La Riva Macharnuda, Dolio and Matallana in Spain, joining existing La Place ‘regulars’ Yjar and Marqués de Riscal’s Tapias. Spanish releases (red) Vintage Region New? Rating Dolio 2019 Ribeira Sacra Yes 93 Matallana 2020 Ribera del Duero Yes 95 Yjar 2019 Rioja No 96 Tapias de Marqués de Riscal 2020 Rioja No 96 C.V.N.E. ‘Real de Asúa’ Carromaza 2020 Rioja Alta No 96+ VivaltuS 2018 Ribera del Duero No 96+ La Fleur VivaltuS 2018 Ribera del Duero No 94 Dolio 2019 (Ribeira Sacra DO; 66% Mencia; 20% Brancellao; 6% Sousón; 4% Caiño; 4% Garnacha Tintorera; 14% alcohol; a total production of 6655 individually numbered bottles). The first vintage of this wine produced at Aldega Algeira for la place de Bordeaux with the help of Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza. Spicy, floral, fresh – gladioli and patchouli, peony – with a pleasing crushed rock minerality accompanying the dried cherries, figs and nuts, but also bright and crisp red berry fruits with even a little redcurrant. A little wild sage too. There’s a lot of tannin present and the granularity of those tannins is evident at first. But that gives a good impression of structure, helping to maintain the compact and yet quite fluid
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