Bela Bela 2023 750ml

This is rich, full bodied and packed with ripe fruit. It has weight and concentration, while retaining the light touch of the house style. With its white fruit and apricot flavors, it could age a few years in bottle, though it's drinkable now.

Dark cherries, blackberries, blueberries, dark spices and violets. Full and structured, with nicely chewy tannins that show it’s from Ribera del Duero, but the balance is in check. Fresh and fruit-conscious. Drink or hold.

This matured in French oak barrels for nine months and comes in at 14.3% alcohol, a pH of 3.72 and five grams of acidity. It sets the tone for the winery—serious and austere wines far away from the excess ripeness, extraction and oak. It's powerful, with the character of the wines from the 1980s and early 1990s, what I consider classical Ribera del Duero. It's floral, fruit-driven and juicy, with fine tannins. This is a champion in drinkability.

An elegant red, with a juicy range of warm plum, mulberry and fig fruit trimmed nicely by light, taut tannins. Fragrant accents of violet, anise, tar and thyme waft through the fruit profile and linger on the finish. Drink now through 2033. 10,000 cases made, 1,000 cases imported.

This balanced, medium-bodied red is structured by lightly chalky, taut tannins, layered with a fresh and appealing mix of mulberry, black plum, herbed olive and graphite notes. Drink now through 2027. 40,000 cases made, 5,000 cases imported.