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We truly believe our wines are fantastic, but you already knew that – we wouldn’t sell them if we didn’t!

That said, it is always nice when someone else recognises the quality in our portfolio, even better when they write a lovely review in the press to tell everyone about it…

Here’s a round-up of what they’ve been saying about us recently!


Tabalí Talinay Vineyard Chardonnay, DO Valle de Limarí 2023:  This is a stunning wine with incredible depth and salinity. Lots of character and personality. Aromas of lime juice, oyster shells, chalk and a touch of smoke. Chalky and medium- to full-bodied, with really good mid-palate volume and a bone-dry, salty finish of excellent length. What a pure, gastronomic chardonnay that shows the terroir. 100% of the fruit is from Talinay. Irresistible now, but can hold. 96 Points James Suckling.com

Why buy much more expensive bottles of white Burgundy of comparable quality when you can drink this superb Chardonnay from limestone-rich soils in the Limarí Valley? Fermented in older oak with no malolactic, it’s a wine with terroir to spare, showing notes of oyster shell, grapefruit and lemon zest, subtle patisserie spices and a lingering, bone-dry finish. 96 Points Tim Atkin Chile Report 2025. 

 

Tabalí Talinay Vineyard Pinot Noir, DO Valle de Limarí 2023: What a characterful pinot, showing beautiful aromas of salt, iodine, wet-stone minerality, mossy red berries and decadent flowers. Saline and bone-dry, with a medium body and a long, savory finish. The Talinay salinity comes through more at the end. Drink now or hold. 94 Points James Suckling.com

Four different clones – 667, 777, 828 and a so-called “Burgundian selection” are in the mix here on this very smart Limarí Valley Pinot Noir. Fermentation with 40% whole bunches adds a savoury, slightly stemmy top note to a sappy, racy, chiselled palate of redcurrant and summer pudding framed by spicy, well-integrated tannins. 94 Points Tim Atkin Chile Report 2025

 

Tabalí Barranco Viognier, DO Valle de Limarí 2023: Excellent depth, with a steely touch to the chalk, crushed seashells, smoke, melon and nectarines on the nose. Essentially a stony wine, with a medium to full body and a pristine and lengthy finish. Saline and appetizing. Drink now or hold. 94 Points James Suckling.com

Felipe Müller’s top Viognier – one of the best examples of the grape in Chile – comes from Tabalí’s Río Hurtado vineyard at 1,600 metres in the Andean stretch of the Limarí Valley. Entirely unwooded, it’s a stony, perfumed expression of the grape that marries aromas of aniseed and stem ginger with flavours of quince and apricot supported by high-altitude acidity. 94 Points Tim Atkin Chile Report 2025

 

Tabalí Micas Peumo Carménère, DO Valle de Cachapoal 2023: Good ripeness with profound aromas of rich cassis, black olives, Mediterranean herbs and a touch of sun-dried tomatoes. Fine, fresh tannins on the palate, with a medium to full body and a supple, lengthy finish. Drink or hold. 93 Points James Suckling.com

A quintessential Peumo Carmenère, give or take the decision to age it in older, second and third-use oak, this has an appealing interplay between capsicum and coffee bean aromas, supple, succulent tannins, plum, red pepper and black cherry flavours and plenty of zip and freshness. 94 Points Tim Atkin Chile Report 2025

 

Tabalí Vetas Blancas Pinot Noir, DO Valle de Limarí 2023: Aromas of savory berry fruit, chalk and orange peel with a hint of sweet spices. Nice structure, with a touch of blood orange character. Mossy fruit with very good tannins and length. Drink now or hold. 92 Points James Suckling.com

Using the 777 and 828 clones, this is a 70/30 blend from Tabalí’s Espinal and Talinay vineyards. Fermented with 30% whole bunches, it’s a floral, juicy, very lightly wooded style with layers of sweet raspberry, goji berry and wild strawberry flavours, textured tannins and a refreshing finish. A great value Limarí Pinot Noir 92 Points Tim Atkin Chile Report 2025

 

Gómez Cruzado Pancrudo Selección Terroir, DOCa Rioja 2022: Pancrudo is part of the new wave of Rioja Garnachas that are helping to redefine the variety’s reputation in the region. Sourced from seven bush-vine parcels at 650 metres in Badarán, it has aromas of garrigue, mint and rose petal, a hint of good reduction, raspberry, plum and black cherry fruit and a taut, mineral finish complemented by very subtle oak. 96pts plus named as one of his ‘Wines of the Year’ – Tim Atkin MW Rioja 2025 Special Report

 

Gómez Cruzado Rioja Crianza, DOCa Rioja 2021: Gómez Cruzado makes one of my favourite Rioja Crianzas, using a well-judged partnership of Tempranillo and 25% Garnacha. Aged in older French and 10% American oak, it’s perfumed, savoury and spicy, with a touch of good reduction, black cherry, bramble and liquorice flavours and a violet top note. 92pts Tim Atkin MW Rioja 2025 Special Report

 

Línea Kármán Rioja Tinto, DOCa Rioja 2023: Deliberately made in a light, juicy, lip-smacking style, with a short amount of maceration time, this is a stainless steel-fermented pairing of Garnacha and 12% Tempranillo. Tangy, perfumed and slightly grassy, it has masses of plum and summer pudding flavours and a nip of tannin for backbone. 91pts Tim Atkin MW Rioja 2025 Special Report

 

Valenciso Rioja Blanco, DOCa Rioja 2023: Valenciso’s superb white is unique, not because it’s a blend of Viura and 30% Garnacha Blanca, but because it’s fermented and aged in 20% new Caucasian oak. Picked in August for the first time, this is fresher and more focused than the 2022 was at the same time, with subtle vanilla spice, lots of zip and minerality and a core of lime, waxed lemon and wild herbs. 95pts plus named as one of his ‘Wines of the Year’ – Tim Atkin MW Rioja 2025 Special Report

 

Giornata Il Campo Bianco (GIO012) 2023: Citrusy, briny, pithy, with an attractive floral bite. At £25, it is astoundingly good value – as are their Il Campo Rosso, OrangoTango and Carbonico – any of which I could have happily selected for the wine of the week. But it’s spring, and the Bianco naturally lends itself to the spinach, asparagus, fava beans, nettles, garlic scapes, pea shoots and fiddleheads that are heaped on farmers’ market tables across the Pacific Northwest, where I live. And food is what these wines are made for. Wine of the Week by Samantha Cole-Johnson on JancisRobinson.com (May 2025)

 

Laderas de Cabama Rioja 2021: This 100% Tempranillo wine is sourced from a single plot of 40-year-old vines in Ollauri, Rioja Alta. Recent vintages have been made in a more fruit-forward style, partly made using whole-berry, semi-carbonic fermentation in concrete vats and using no new oak, complemented by 14 months’ resting in used French oak barrels. Lovely, deep savouriness. Crushed olive leaves, macerated rosemary and thyme cloak the red plum, blood orange, pink grapefruit, pomegranate and red cherry fruit. Beautiful, earthy rusticity – black olive tapenade, petrichor. Drink 2025-2029. 91pts Decanter Rioja Report (May 2025)

 

Domaine des Tourelles Skin [Orange Wine] 2023: Faouzi Issa is a modern winemaker in Lebanon, but has been mentored by some Georgian winemakers in the secrets of skin-contact ‘orange’ wines. Here he has used 150-year-old Merweh, fermented with wild yeast and spending four months with skins in Terracotta jars. The nose is attractively wild, with a yeasty and stony character but something quite floral/herbal too. It isn’t nutty, but a touch of wheat plays against a hint of jasmine, so quite intriguing. In the mouth it is dry, the phenolics of tannin and melon rind dominating, but there is juiciness too. A squeeze of lime and a lick of salt is half-way to a Tequila shot here, but that’s doing a thoroughly interesting and really quite delicious wine a disservice. Watch the video for more information and food-matching suggestions. Wine of the Week, Tom Cannavan Wine Pages.com (May 2025)

 

Juan Gil 18 Blue Label 2022: Heady, ripe. Syrupy blackberries, mulberries and hibiscus tea. Bold and weighty palate, layered with leather, oak and tonka bean. Powerful. 91 pts Decanter Magazine (June 2025)

 

 

Juan Gil Dry Rosé 2024: Wild berries, raspberry, rose petals and blood orange peel. The palate is vibrant and fresh with a taut structure, juicy red fruit and fresh acidity. A refreshing, dry style with a firm finish. 90 pts Decanter Magazine (June 2025) 

 

 

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