A shopping list of uniquely appealing Spanish wines

2012 LibamusChocolate brownies will never taste the same again without a glass of this insane wine along for the ride, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2012 Libamus, Dulce de Menca, Bodegas Godelia, Bierzo, Spain£22 take away, £29.50 drink in, 50cl bottle, The Tapas Room, Tooting Broadway Market and Deptford Market Yard, TheTapasRoom.co.uk

Some years ago I asked the powers that be if they fancied occasional restaurant reviews in MoneyWeek, given that I eat out a lot in the course of my job. The answer was: no, stick to wine! So this is not a restaurant review (honest), but a shopping list of uniquely appealingSpanish wines, all available tobuy to take away, or indeed drink in, at a stunning Spanish bar situated in Tooting Broadway Market, and also a newly opened branch of the same business in Deptford Market Yard.

My featured sweet menca is incredible. Chocolate brownies will never taste the same again without a glass of this insane wine along for the ride. Intensely sweet and stuffed with blackberry and cherry notes, but at the same time, tannic and freshly crisp, this wine is reason enough alone to visit The Tapas Room.

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But you must also taste the 2016 Via Cimbrn Verdejo Seleccin (£17.50/ £27.50), which brings new gravitas to proceedings for this grape; the 2015 Chafandn Vias del Jaro Ribera del Duero (£44/£58), which challenges the elite boys' wines in this region for a fraction of the price; and the 2015 Palamino Mosto En Rama Tosca Cerrada (£21/£33), which is a white wine made with flor, like a sherry complex and bafflingly beautiful!

I could go on and on, but there is a cornucopia of original and unique flavours on this bar's list that will be sure to amaze you. Oh, the food is good, too.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (MatthewJukes.com).

Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.

 

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