Navaherreros Caminos Bernabeleva 750ml

The just bottled 2016 Camino de Navaherreros was hitting it on all cylinders, with an open nose of flowers and wild berries. There is more fruit in the foreground, juicy and very approachable, with super fine tannins and good acidity. 40,000 bottles were filled in May 2017.

There are a couple more wines to complete the already quite wide range from Bernabeleva. All four whites are completely different, with the common theme of that almost-saline note you can get in the whites from San Martín de Valdeiglesias. As for the reds, the 2014s are simply stunning. They have now reached 93,000 bottles in total.

I had the chance to taste a couple of wines from 2007—their first "serious" vintage now ten years after the harvest—when they had to buy all new barrels that for sure marked the wines. They have come a long way since then, but oak aside, the wines were still showing very much alive, so the current ones should not age for shorter.

Score: 89 points  -- Luis Gutierrez, RobertParker.com, Jun 2017