07 de March de 2019
Altos de Losada 2016
Ken's Wine Rating: Very Good+ (91)
Review date: February 28, 2019
Wine Review: This dark red colored Mencia from Losada opens with a black forest chocolate cake bouquet. On the palate, this wine is medium bodied, balanced and a little juicy. The flavor profile is a mild mineral infused plum with hints of gentle black tea, espresso and a touch of pomegranate. The finish is dry and its refined moderate tannins stick around for a little bit. This Mencia would be perfect with slow cooked beef brisket. Enjoy - Ken
Winemaker Notes: The flagship wine produced from 17 small estate parcels on steep hillsides, is aged 15 months in new French oak and achieves the estate’s highest levels of concentration and minerality.
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13 de February de 2019
New review from Wine Spectator: #92 Altos de Losada Viñedos Viejos 2016
Altos de Losada: one of the best expression of the Bierzo terroir
LOSADA VINOS DE FINCA
Bierzo Altos de Losada Viñedos Viejos 2016
Score: 92
Release Price $42
Country Spain
Region Spain
Issue Mar 31, 2019
Tasting Note
This plush red delivers black cherry and red plum flavors backed by licorice, espresso and smoky notes. Light tannins and juicy acidity provide structure, then give way to pretty floral and mineral accents on the finish. Drink now through 2024. 2,000 cases made.
–TM
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30 de Januray de 2019
El Pájaro Rojo from Losada Vinos de Finca received 92 points and came in third on the Top 100 Wines Under $30 ranking for 2018 from James Suckling.
Pájaro Rojo #3 TOP 100 WINES UNDER $30 (2018) Whatever your views on what make great value wines, there should be something for everybody on this list.From up-and-coming American states to inexpensive Bordeaux to the German Rhine, there are plenty of great wines @JamesSuckling
Pájaro Rojo 92 points
This is really minerally with granite and blueberry
character. Medium to full body, firm and linear tannins
and a long finish.
https://www.losadavinosdefinca.com/el-pajaro-rojo
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29 de de 2018
James Suckling just released his Top 100 Spanish Wines 2018
“Spain is determined to amaze the world with its new wines!”
Losada is proud to place in 9th position out of the top 100 best Spanish Wines 2018 with La Bienquerida 2016 and in 27th position with Losada 2016.
Losada Vinos de Finca was featured TWICE in @james.suckling 's Spain's Top 100 for 2018! Losada 2016 was ranked #27 with a 96 point score and Altos de Losada La Bienquerida 2016 was ranked #9 with a 98 point score.
Spain: from the elegant to the robust
This year no Spanish wines earned a perfect 100-point score from JamesSuckling.com, but that this doesn’t mean that no Spanish wines blew our minds. We rated five of the 2,800-plus Spanish wines 99 points and 12 wines earned 98 points. Although, given Spain’s historic strength in powerful yet refined reds and wines of this kind dominate our Top 100 for Spain,
“Spain is determined to amaze the world with its new wines!”
LA BIENQUERIDA 2016 #98
Vintage 2016
Puntuación 98
A very complex and deep-set wine from the outset. This shows a very impressive sense of purity, suggesting immaculate attention to detail in the vineyard. Dark stones and graphite with light, peppery nuances and a deep black-cherry core. The tannins are long, sleek and sexy, like crushed velvet. Long and fresh. Drink or hold.
Publish Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018
LOSADA 2016 #96
Country Spain
DO Bierzo “Sexy, stylish and complex Bierzo with a wealth of dark graphite and stony aromas, pepper, baking spices and dark berries. Succulent palate with a deep and juicy core of pitch-perfect, ripe and spicy black cherries and blackberries. The tannins are immaculate. Long and regal. Drink or hold.”
Publish Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018
Top 100 Spanish Wines in 2018
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17 de de 2018
Steve Metzler, founder and co-owner of Classical Wines with his wife Almudena de Llaguno, participated in the opening panel discussion of the 25th Anniversary of Wines from Spain #SpainsGreatMatch NY.
Here are some comments of his, reflecting on the beginning of his more than 40 years in the Spanish wine industry:
My career in wine parallels the renaissance of Spain in the post-Franco era, beginning in 1976. In that year, Spain’s first glossy gastronomical magazine (Club des Gourmets) debuted, and Hugh Johnson’s World Atlas was published in paperback (we stacked that 100 at a time, $7.99 a copy), enabling virtual travel to the wine country.
Remember Spain had dropped off the map following the Civil War and remained hidden during the advent of mass media in the 20th Century. Meanwhile American servicemen came home from tours in France, Germany and Italy and brought awareness of those wines to the American public.
Spain was fascinating not for the wines we were able to taste at the time, but for their theoretical quality based on a study of the conditions responsible for fine northern European wines. Wagner’s Line separating Atlantic from Mediterranean climate zones was an early inspiration, and I adapted this in Spain with a broad arc I called ‘The Quality Crescent’, leading to my first solo itinerary in 1983 (also to the discovery of multiple DOs prior to their inception). Of course, this arc had to include Sanlúcar de Barrameda and its inimitable Manzanilla, reputed to be best drunk only in its region of production—a reputation shared with Albariño at the time.
We spent the 80s and into the 90s reacquainting the markets with the fact that Spain was an integral part of Europe and European winemaking history. Our SWE and WSET lectures of those years focused on geography (latitude and altitude) and history to support.
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08 de August de 2018
The tasting team at JamesSuckling.com tasted and rated more than 2,600 wines in this report within the span of two intense and totally fascinating weeks.
The wide net we cast this year in Spain not only provides readers with a great tool when making buying decisions, it also enables us to find out a great deal about the way the good and great wines of Spain are developing.
Losada 2016
Score 96
Sexy, stylish and complex Bierzo with a wealth of dark graphite and stony aromas, pepper, baking spices and dark berries. Succulent palate with a deep and juicy core of pitch-perfect, ripe and spicy black cherries and blackberries. The tannins are immaculate. Long and regal. Drink or hold.
Publish Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018
ALTOS DE LOSADA LA BIENQUERIDA 2016
Score 98
A very complex and deep-set wine from the outset. This shows a very impressive sense of purity, suggesting immaculate attention to detail in the vineyard. Dark stones and graphite with light, peppery nuances and a deep black-cherry core. The tannins are long, sleek and sexy, like crushed velvet. Long and fresh. Drink or hold.
ALTOS DE LOSADA VIÑEDOS VIEJOS 2016
Score 93
Impressive ripeness. This has intense raspberries and red plums and a wealth of bold yet smooth and ripe tannins. Good depth. Drink or hold.
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16 de July de 2018
wine-paired menu
20/7/18 AT 20:30H
TASTING MENU CREATED BY CHEF SIMON PETUTSCHNIG AND MATCHED WINES FROM THE LOSADA BODEGAS.
Price: 99€ *
(20% discount for Ci?rculo Mallorqui?n members)
LIMITED PLACES. AN UNMISSABLE EXPERIENCE.
*50% to be paid on booking and the balance on the day of the event. In case of cancellation at least 24 hours in advance of the start of the event, the full amount of the deposit will be returned.
Make your reservation:
971 59 53 01, 682 319 471
or by email reservations@ferapalma.com
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27 de June de 2018
Altos de Losada El Cepón #96
Forest fruit preserve, balsamic waxy, organic and mineral , remarkable young wine expression, toasted notes, flavourful palate, soft, succulent, spicy aspect (nutmeg, smoked paprika), deeply telluric.
Altos de Losada 2015 #97Ripe fruit, fruit-liqueur (plums), crayons, with more weight of fruit, fruit and less reductive notes than the previous vintage, cocoa and carob, huge structure, fine tannins, exceptional mineral character (peat, pencil lead) deeply telluric.
Losada 2016 #94Ripe black fruit, more varietal expression and freshness than previous vintages, waxy, creamy and spicy notes, balsamic nuances, exceptional texture and citric acidity, with balance and affine cocoa and smoked peat finish.
Altos de Losada La Senda del Diablo 2016 #96Black fruit, sun drenched grape skins, delicately Smoky and reductive, truffle, peat, crayons, flowers, strong ripe Syrah from the Rhône Valley character, telluric, good texture and structure, sour berries in mid palate, huge terroir and young wine expression, balanced and singular.
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27 de June de 2018
LOSADA 2016 Score: 90
Lithe and lively, this red shows a core of fresh black cherry flavors, backed by licorice, cocoa and light leafy notes. Light tannins and fresh acidity are balanced, giving way to floral and mineral details on the finish. Drink now through 2022. 10,000 cases made.
–TM
Altos de Losada La Bienquerida 2015 Score: 92
This rich red has a dense texture backed by muscular tannins. Ripe flavors of plum and currant mingle with loamy earth, mineral and cola notes. A big, almost brawny style for the region, but balanced. Drink now through 2028. 400 cases made.
–TM
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23 de May de 2018
New vintage release: Pájaro Rojo 2017 "roble", reafirms its outsantding quality
Pájaro Rojo 2017, the elegant Bierzo red. A balanced and lively expression of mencia from the Bierzo region.
Vinified with Mencía grapes sourced from old vines of 30-40 years average, selected from the coolest areas, tries a youthful wine, fruity, that shows the most of the varietal and the soils
Powerful bouquet, violet and ripe berry fruit to dark cherry with a hint of luscious plum; structure and concentrated palate
GRAPE: mencía
ESTATE: old vines , selected from the coolest areas.
SOILS: gentle clay slopes
AGEING: 4 months in French oak barrel
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