El Vinculo La Mancha Crianza 2020 GERAUS with over two decades of

with over two decades of barrel aging

Aglianico is the great southern Italian red that almost nobody outside Italy talks about

Fleuron is where they turn up the intensity: mostly Grand Cru fruit from Cramant and Chouilly

All the bright

assembled from younger Syrah planted near Condrieu and Verin

El Vinculo La Mancha Crianza 2020 GERAUS with over two decades ofDon Quixote charged the windmills of Campo de Criptana, and Alejandro Fernandez planted Tempranillo in their shadow. La Mancha's reputation was built on cheap bulk wine; Fernandez, the man who made Ribera del Duero famous with Pesquera, came here to argue otherwise. El Vinculo is unapologetically old school Spanish red: 18 months in American and French oak, ripe and earthy, roasted and generous. It's not subtle and it isn't pretending to be, which is