David Williams, Matthew Forster MW and Diana Rollan tasted 118 wines, with 2 Excellent and 20 Extremely Really useful.
Spanish rosado & clarete: Panel tasting scores
118 wines tasted
Distinctive 0
Excellent 2
Extremely really useful 20
Really useful 57
Recommended 26
Honest 13
Poor 0
Entry standards: producers and UK brokers had been invited to submit their current-release, nonetheless rosado (produced from pink grapes following the saignée/sangrado or direct press technique) or clarete (25% pink grapes/should and 75% white grapes/should, blended earlier than alcoholic fermentation) wines from any ageing class of joven, roble, crianza, reserva or gran reserva
This tasting featured among the best wines I and my two fellow judges, Matthew Forster MW and Diana Rollan, have encountered in a Decanter panel tasting. A unanimous 97-pointer, Bodega Hacienda Lopéz de Haro’s Classica Gran Reserva Rosado 2013 is vying for a spot in my private pantheon: is that this the best Spanish rosado I’ve ever tasted? It’s definitely up there.
In a rosé winemaking world that’s more and more preoccupied with imitating the mannequin of extraordinarily pale, delicately flavoured wines, patented (with extraordinary current success) by Provence, the Classica was a vivid and well timed reminder. Different types of rosé can be found – and an extended custom of creating deeper-coloured, extra powerfully flavoured and extra robustly textured rosados is certainly one of Spanish wine’s many strengths. And certain sufficient, it was wines made on this custom that stood out and attracted our highest scores.
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Spanish rosado & clarete panel tasting scores
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The judges
David Williams is wine correspondent for The Observer, a daily contributor to Decanter on all issues Spanish, and a extensively revealed wine author, writer and competitors choose.
Matthew Forster MW is an impartial wine advisor and schooling specialist, and founding father of The Wine Partnership. A former director on the Wine & Spirit Training Belief, he has a selected ardour for the meals and wine cultures of Spain, Portugal and South America.
Diana Rollan is group head of beverage for D&D London eating places group. A DWWA choose for Spain, she previously managed coaching and wine shopping for at Hakkasan Group as its UK head of wine.
