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Spanish wines from Les Caves

Ton Mata in Bufadors vineyard

Off the beaten track in Spain for wines you can now buy online. Above, Ton Mata of Recaredo among the vines of his personal project Bufadors.

Les Caves de Pyrène, the UK’s most established importer of low-intervention wines, showed off their Spanish range last October. Sensibly, they grouped the wines by region in a roughly upward trajectory of alcoholic strength, ending with some excellent unfortified wines from the land of sherry and Montilla to complement my collection of tasting notes on similar wines published at the end of October. For me, Alvear’s unfortified Montilla-Moriles wines included some of the stars...