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According to the report ” Trends in wine consumers in the era COVID-19‘, prepared by Wine Intelligence, in recent months the online market for the sale of wine has experienced remarkable growth derived from some new consumption habits for lovers of good wines.
The study reveals that people who were already assiduous in consuming wine have gained adherents although in many markets they have done so by reducing their spending per bottle, in order to generally stay within a budget. They have turned more towards well-known brands and tested and they prefer wines of national productionas safety, trust and familiarity have become more important in the purchase decision.
If you are passionate about good wine, today Summum we bring you one exceptional selection with some of the latest market news that without a doubt they will not leave you indifferent.
Ramón Bilbao
What if you enjoy a glass of wine while playing a board game in good company and also learn about wine? This is one of the latest proposals from the wineries of Ramón Bilbao to enjoy in these times that we have had to live.
What was the first civilization on record in Spain that markets wine ?; In how many provinces is the DO Ribera del Duero present ?; Why are the wines kept horizontally? These are just some of the more than 400 questions in the game “Spanish Wine Academy” de Ramón Bilbao, a little trivia about the culture of Spanish wine to enjoy with company.
This original board game is included in a pack of two Ramón Bilbao Reserva bottles, where the consumer can find various questions framed in different categories: geography, terroir and varieties, science, curiosities or wine pairing.
Price: 27€
Emilio Moro
The Valladolid winery, one of the leaders of the DO Ribera del Duero, has designed five exclusive cases to enjoy wine with all the senses.
The jewel of your online store is undoubtedly the ‘In Malleolus Veritas’, which for the first time in history brings together its iconic Malleolus in the same case, whose launch 21 years ago marked a before and after in the history of the winery and the DO Ribera del Duero.
The pack includes a bottle of Malleolus 2018, a 100% Tempranillo with an intense aroma and a great personality marked by the low production of the harvest, which has favored the balance between maturity and freshness, and the complexity provided by its months in the barrel; one from Malleolus de Valderramiro 2016, from the winery’s oldest vineyard, planted in 1924, expressive, intense and with varietal aromas well assembled with notes of wood; and another from Malleolus de Sanchomartín 2015, a terroir wine from a very special plot of only one hectare and from one of the best vintages of the last ten years.
Price: 224,90 €
Valtravieso
Valtravieso is one of the first wineries with its own vineyard in Ribera del Duero located in one of the highest limestone moors in the region. His team has produced a very special wine, from Limited Edition (a total production of 2.305 bottles) that was released for the first time in 1995 and has not been produced for several years: Gran Valtravieso 2016.
Is an elegant and deep wine, with structure and mineral character, made with the Tinta Fina variety. After 12 months of refining in French oak barrels, it has been another 12 months in concrete and 1 more year in the bottle.
It can be purchased in your online store with a price for € 87 or in a luxury case that includes 3 bottles for € 249.
Rio Negro farm
Rio Negro farm has just presented its new vintages: wines with great personality, whose aging and quality of the grapes reflect the winery’s commitment to making one of the most unique wines in Spain. High altitude wines.
In its constant search to offer maximum excellence, the winery launches 5th year, result of the 2015 harvest. The most exclusive red from Finca Río Negro which goes on the market with a limited and exclusive production of 7.521 units. Through artisanal and meticulous processes and, after aging for 18 months in mainly French oak barrels, Finca Río Negro achieves a red with an intense, elegant and very complex aroma.
Price: 26,5€
Alta Pavina
The madness of Ortega brothers leads them to produce Pinot Noir two kilometers from the river Duero, in Valladolid. With an altitude close to 1.000 meters and extreme weather conditions, this project, which began by planting the vineyard in 1985, culminates in wines that surprise the whole world. The Spanish Pinot Noir takes you into a world of sensations never before experienced.
And from this madness is born Sooner high pavin 2014, a 100% Pinot Noir wine with a brilliant ruby color that captivates. Elegant and delicate on the nose with aromas of red, black and even floral fruits that blend with the oak in which it has rested and that has endowed it with complexity. In the mouth, its velvety sensation surprises while still showing liveliness and expressiveness.
A luxury for the senses that also, from November 20 to 30, has a 50% discount on all its boxes of 6 and 12 bottles on the occasion of the Black Friday.
Price: 19,90€
Fernando de castilla
El Palo Cortado It is the most elegant of all Sherry wines, but also the most revolutionary. Aroma of Amontillado, flavor and color of Oloroso. Fernando de Castilla Palo Cortado Antique It is presented in a transparent glass bottle to appreciate all the richness of nuances just by looking at it. It is aged in individual soleras, a characteristic that makes it unique and different from the rest of its counterparts.
Subtle on the nose, nuts and bitter orange, and light and delicious rancid, a very long wine, which combines perfectly with cold cuts, smoked meats, meats, mushrooms and artichokes.
Price: 44,50€
Bodegas Pinea
And if you are one of those who bet on the magnum format, Bodegas Pinea has made available to its customers a special limited edition pack with two large-format bottles with the approaching Christmas toasts in mind.
According to experts, magnum format (bottles with double the capacity -1,5 liters-) is more appropriate for the conservation of wine since the amount of oxygen in the bottle is lower, oxidation slows down and they evolve better.
For the occasion, the pack includes two of the great references of the wineries, on the one hand ‘Pinea’, a complex and balanced wine with 24 months of aging in new French oak barrels, which highlights the full potential of a long aging Tempranillo. While for another, ’17’ It is a very versatile wine with 18 months of aging in French and American oak barrels. Elegant, full-bodied, daring and with a perfect balance between fruit and toasted wood.
This limited edition pack is available in your online store for € 390.
Marquis of Vargas
Made in vineyards located in Rioja Alta, recognized with the denomination of ‘Singular Vineyard’ By the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPAMA) and the DOCa Rioja, the differential of these wines lies in their production and elaboration process, where there is absolute respect for the vineyard.
Hacienda Pradolagar 2015, is the most exclusive reference of these wineries, with a limited production of 3.600 bottles. This wine is obtained only in the great vintages. Made with Tempranillo and Mazuelo, from a single plot, “La Victoria”, with vines over 50 years old.
A red that was born with the vocation of becoming an emblem of Rioja. Price: 116,60€
Pay of Heaven
895 meters of altitude where vines and starry sky can almost touch in the Ribera del Duero it is located Pay of Heaven, belonging to the Torres family, Celeste’s place of origin.
This Castilian winery combines experience and commitment to quality and the most authentic essence of this ancient land, creating wines like its Celeste Crianza, with twelve months of aging in French oak barrels, a very special wine that can undoubtedly be a great option for your gatherings this holiday season.
Price: 18,30€
Speech
Speak goblin It is one of the latest novelties from the award-winning Extremadura winery. This wine, whose name refers to that mysticism of flamenco, was born from inspiration, from the desire of its ideologues to make an exceptional white based on Sauvignon Blanc, with the added value of careful aging. Following the French tradition, Speak goblin It is fermented in old and new French oak barrels from the Vosges mountain range, where it remains in contact with its lees for ten months.
The new vintage, 2018, offers an exquisite mix of citrus aromas, delicate floral notes and smoky memories. On the nose, offers an exquisite blend of citrus aromas of ripe lemon with delicate floral notes of linden. While in mouth it is an explosion of sensations, with a great harmony between minerality and freshness.
On the design of the bottle, silkscreened in gold, it is inspired by the monument of the Alhambra, in Granada.
Price: 23€
The Empress Estate
Finca La Emperatriz Great Wine 2016, is a pack that includes two of the great varieties of Hermanos Hernáiz Vineyards.
A monovarietal white from Viura and a red with 18 months of barrel aging made with Tempranillo, Garnacha and Viura. Both were vinified with grapes from vines with an average of 60 years, and recover the style of fine and aging wines that gave glory to the Rioja Alta. And it is precisely therein lies the key to the turn that the winery is now making: in the desire to recover the essence of the farm, something that Hernáiz They have not stopped searching since they arrived here, for which they have shifted their focus to the Bordeaux style. A style that is at the core of its history, which is the vineyard where everything originates.
Price: 75€
Fernández Rivera family
Fernández Rivera family has launched an exclusive pack that contains more than just wine. The group, which brings together the wineries Tinto Pesquera, Haza County, Dehesa la Granja and El Vínculo, presents an exclusive box with which you can enjoy the best wines and gourmet products.
This pack contains a bottle of El Vínculo Reserva 2014, a bottle of Condado de Haza Reserva Especial 2012, a bottle of Tinto Pesquera Crianza 2018, a cured sheep cheese “Dehesa de la Granja” and 1kg of IGP Fuentesaúco chickpeas “Dehesa de la Farm”. In addition, it contains as a gift an apron of the group, a wooden board and a special cheese knife.
To mark the Black FridayIt also has a special price of 53 €.
Castelo of Medina
The award-winning winery from Valladolid presents the vintage 2019 of its young wines in collaboration with the plastic artist Simmon Said, who signs a limited and numbered edition pack whose design reminds us of the importance of meeting and celebrating.
Its colors are inspired by the freshness of Rueda whites, the denomination of origin to which it belongs. Castelo of Medina, and its interior houses four bottles to uncork that undoubtedly promise great moments: Castelo Nouveau, Castelo Rosé, Castelo de Medina Sauvignon Blanc and the famous Verdejo of the winery, Castelo de Medina Verdejo, chosen the best in the world of its category in three occasions.
The pack can be purchased at Castelo de Medina online store for price of 59,90 €.
Wineries LAN
Culmen 2015, the maximum exponent of the wineries LAN It is undoubtedly the culmination of the emblematic Riojan winery, made with grapes from an exclusive selection of old, low-yielding vines located in the I pay the corner from his farm Vineyard Lanciano. An exclusive pleasure that only sees the light in outstanding vintages, in this case, the 2015 vintage.
With a bright cherry red color, this expressive and elegant wine is dominated by notes of red fruit in liquor, blackberries on a spicy background of nutmeg and cinnamon. In the mouth it turns out enveloping, tasty and structured leaving an intense fleshy and fruity footprint in its wake.
Price: € 42,75, available in the wineries online store.
Mar de Frades
Mar de Frades once again demonstrates its firm commitment to the world of culture, and particularly in the field of design. This time The Second Skin takes over from Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, who was in charge of dressing the blue bottle last year, creating for this occasion an “ephemeral, timeless and eternal design” inspired by the mysteries of the sea and wine to bring us a concept of elegance and essential luxury .
The bottle designed by Burillo and Fernández reflects quality, hope and elegance, and finds its main protagonist in the color gold, in clear reference to the Galician sun, a color represented in the seagulls that fly over the blue sea and represent a hopeful future.
The collection Limited Edition from the Galician winery will have 30.000 units, with a price of 15,53 euros per bottle.