España alberga cientos de variedades de uva autóctonas, infinidad de pequeñas bodegas familiares y regiones que elaboran vinos de los que mucha gente ni siquiera ha oído hablar. Sin embargo, muchas cartas de vinos siguen apostando por lo seguro, confiando en las referencias más conocidas porque son las que reconocen los clientes y porque, en muchos casos, no hay tiempo ni recursos para explorar alternativas.

And here we are again, my annual exercise of looking back and distilling a year of wine drinking into my favourite Top 10. Every year we look back on all of the wines we tried/drank and attempt to put them in some order of preference. However, this year felt harder for some reason. Not because the wines were less memorable, but because the year itself unfolded differently. The first few months were relatively quiet on a personal drinking level, largely due to the nature o