High quality/price (1/2)

koudstaal 09/04/06 11:57

High quality/price

Hi all!
I’m new on this forum. Later this week i’ll be visiting the Castilla y León, Rioja/Navarra and Aragon regions. Some friends of mine asked me to buy for them white, red and rosé wines with a high quality/price ratio. Pricerange: maximum 6 euro per bottle (consumer price). which vineyards/cellars should i visit??? Thanks in advance!!! Peter

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rayol
en respuesta a koudstaal 09/04/06 15:44

Hmmmm

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Well they haven’t given you many options.
6€ isn’t very much when you consider the cost of the bottle cork label tax etc..not many euros left for what’s in the bottle !
Anyway here goes.....

Navarra...Inurrietta

Ribera del Duero....Most of the good bodegas Joven wines will come in at about that price.
Abadia Retuerta -Primicia/Arnoldo
Emilio Moro- Finca Realso
Arrocal

Finca La Estacada (Castilla la Mancha)

These are the ones I like...there are more seek advice from good wine merchants. Are you planning to visit shops or bodegas ?

Ray

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jose
en respuesta a koudstaal 09/04/06 17:55

Welcome Peter, and here we go...

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I’d add to the rayol suggestions, Yllera winery, they’ve red and white wines under 6 EUR and I do really like them. Do you like verdejo wines? They use to be under 6 EUR (or very near) and with really nice QPR. Names to remember and easy to find are Castrosan (verdejo of Yllera winery), Blanco Nieva, Palacio de Bornos, José Pariente...
In Aragon, you can find nice QPR wines of Viñas del Vero (they’ve got some white and red ones). Julián Chivite is from Navarra, but the wines are easy to find and with affordable QPR. Bodegas Borsao (DO Campo de Borja) have nice QPR wines...

I’m pretty sure that some other forumites can suggest you some other great QPR wines.

Cheers,

Jose

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jose
en respuesta a jose 09/04/06 17:56

Ehem... not Castosan, but Cantosán. Sorry ;) (v)

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WaltZalenski
en respuesta a rayol 10/04/06 04:51

Arrocal

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Arrocal is an astute pick, Ray. This has been a very good QPR wine but is likely to get even better since, as of the latest release, the wine is now made by Isaac Fernandez, formerly of Mauro and now the winemaker both Palomero and Neo -- two fairly pricey Ribera Del Duero wines that have achieved wonderful reputations in very little time.

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Paco Higón
en respuesta a koudstaal 10/04/06 13:14

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Hi, Peter…. and welcome to Verema… My bet is for most red “young” wines of both Ribera del Duero and Rioja…. And for the nice whites of Rueda (Palacio de Bornos Verdejo, for instance). And about shops… the best I know in the area is in Valladolid: “Pecados Orginales”…. Nice prices and a good selection…

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koudstaal
en respuesta a koudstaal 10/04/06 16:26

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Thanks for your help!!! I’m figuring out a sort of a winetrail so that i can visit as much as Bodegas - the ones you mentioned - as possible. Thanks again! I’ll be back within 14 days...to be continued....:-))).