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...I gave my highest mark to a wine that should be just as easy to find: Contino Reserva 2017 Rioja — a seriously beautiful wine from CVNE’s estate in Rioja Alavesa where the wines are made by the celebrated...
...Notable Rioja producers The aristocracy • Bodegas Bilbaínas • Bodegas Riojanas • Contino • CVNE • López de Heredia • Marqués de Murrieta • Marqués de Riscal • Muga • La Rioja Alta The (relative...
.... £11.95 Stone, Vine & Sun Contino, Reserva 2005 Rioja Very smart single-vineyard wine from a fine vintage. Urbane somehow. Delightfully mature....
...May be found on some Tesco shelves at £20.29. 13%, £22.65, Noel Young Contino Reserva 2006 Rioja Lots of pure fruit and just the merest sprinkling of dust. Very savoury and well balanced....
...Andrew’s picks ● CVNE and Contino are widely distributed in the UK (by Waitrose Wine Direct, waitrosewine.com; and Berry Bros and Rudd, bbr.com, among others) ● For Allende, contact Berry Bros and Rudd...
...Guigal domain Côte Rôtie; Michel Ogier Côte Rôtie ‘La Belle Hélène’; Ch de St Cosme (Gigondas) Languedoc: La Grange des Pères; Thierry Navarre (Roquebrun) Priorat: Alvaro Palacios ‘L’Ermita’ Rioja: Contino...
...There were mutterings of exclusivity re the Bunan, Contino 2002 Rioja and Selvapiana which, I pointed out, turned out to be not so exclusive after all....
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