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While their Pésus bottling goes for $500-600 and is one of the most adored in all of Spain for savvy insider collectors, the winery remains mostly overlooked in the United States. The Viña Sastre Pago de Santa Cruz is a bottling that is released only in top years in a volume of less than 500 six-pack cases for the world market. The vineyard was planted in 1946, and its ancient vines remain dry-farmed and bush-trained as is traditional. It's a deeply colored opaque style, matured in a combination of used Amerrican and French Oak barrels for five years, resulting in an exuberant and complex explosion of ripe black fruits, wine-soaked cedar and sandalwood, zesty five-spice powder, mocha, and scorched earth. The Regina Vides is even more special. with a 6,000 or less bottle production produced from goblet trained vines with an average age of over 100 years! This cuvée is sort of like the \"baby\" Pésus and sees 100% new French oak. It is intense, powerful, but somehow still incredibly elegant, just like its more famous Unico counterpart. - BRANDON KERNE, MASTER SOMMELIER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e91 Points from Joaqun Hidalgo of Vinous\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The 2018 Flavus is a Jaén labeled as Vino Blanco de la Horra and was aged for ten months in mildly toasted barrels. Yellow with a greenish sheen in the glass. Delivers notes of hazelnut and herbs, along with pineapple and jasmine, against an oak and vanilla backdrop. The palate is dry and creamy with a slightly astringent mouthfeel due to the low 3.2 pH. 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Have you ever felt like you \"won\" the wine list? That was the feeling I had, and the wine's honeyed Puligny-esque vibes thrilled me over the course of the whole meal. The arrival of Luis Rodriguez's wines immediately became an annual celebration for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuis's winery is situated in the historical Ribeiro zone in Spain's northwestern Galicia region near the Portuguese border. The native grapes he has re-planted are mostly unseen and unheard of internationally, and they're not easy to pronounce; the local language there is Gallego, a language unique to Galicia that sounds like a blend of Spanish and Portuguese. A few hundred years ago, Ribeiro was a dominant wine region, and they sold many of their wines to the English. However, wars (and more wars) stifled the region's viticultural prowess. Rodriguez has ripped up the bulk Palomino and Alicante Bouschet grapes planted over the last century, and his mission has been to restore the primacy of the native grapes: Treixadura, Godello, Lado, and Albariño for whites and Brancellao, Souson, Caiño Tinto and Ferrol for the reds.  Enjoying these wines requires a leap of faith, and it's one I am going to ask you to take. The region's geographical location imparts wonderful food wines with terrific balance from the moderating Atlantic coastline, and its granitic, sandy soils offer sheer mineral character across wines of both colors. Whether you're a vinous explorer or someone who just loves White Burgundy (get the Escolma!), there's something for you here.  -  BRANDON KERNE, MASTER SOMMELIER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the lowest yielding old vines, comprised of mostly Treixadura, planted on steep granite hillsides. 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