Generous and well-structured, this red offers bright cherry and raspberry fruit, backed by vanilla, toast and spice notes. Juicy acidity keeps this fresh and lively, while firm, well-integrated tannins impart backbone. Drink now through 2025. 3,500 cases made.??–TM??Region: Spain / Rioja Select to Add

A library release purchased from Paternina, the 2001 Conde de los Andes is a textbook classical Rioja produced at the height of modernity in the region. It has a developed nose but still keeps some signs of fruit and youth from a very powerful vintage. It has notes of maraschino cherries and tobacco, exotic spices and forest floor. The palate is round, juicy and lush, with clout and stuffing to develop for another decade.

Also a limited library release from the stock purchased from the previous owners, the red 1970 Conde de los Andes comes from a very famous vintage in the region and shows the profile of a nice, aged traditional red Rioja, with complex and developed aromas of humus, forest floor, truffles, leather, cherries in liqueur, maraschino and blonde tobacco. The palate is silky, elegant and smooth, with fully resolved tannins and good freshness. Ironically, this wine could be purchased for next to nothing some ten years ago and now goes for $350...