Bodegas Carmelo Rodero ★ 4.5
A Pedrosa de Duero family estate producing the Carmelo Rodero Crianza, Reserva and 9 Meses, as well as TSM from old vines, with the founding family still at the helm after more than three decades.
A certified organic estate at Sotillo de la Ribera in Burgos province, where José Félix and daughter Noelia craft village-and single-vineyard Tinto Fino wines from high-altitude limestone soils at 830 to 930 metres.
Address: Avenida del Cid km 16, 09441 Sotillo de la Ribera, Burgos, Spain, Ribera del Duero
A Pedrosa de Duero family estate producing the Carmelo Rodero Crianza, Reserva and 9 Meses, as well as TSM from old vines, with the founding family still at the helm after more than three decades.
A La Horra estate founded by the Sastre brothers in 1992, producing the Roble, Crianza, Viña Sastre Reserva and single-parcel Pago de Santa Cruz from old Tinto Fino vines in the Burgos sector.
A natural-wine pioneer in the Burgos sector working with old pre-phylloxera Tinto Fino and Albillo Mayor vines, producing low-intervention wines with minimal sulfur under the Villalbilla and other labels.
The Moro family's second estate, founded in 2001 at Pesquera de Duero, focused on younger-vine Tinto Fino with the Cepa 21 and Hito entry labels and the premium Malabrigo from selected old parcels.
Specialists in extreme-altitude old-vine Tinto Fino from the Soria sub-zone at Atauta, where pre-phylloxera ungrafted vines at over 1000 metres produce the Llanos del Almendro and single-parcel La Mala cuvées.
A Pedrosa de Duero family estate producing the Carmelo Rodero Crianza, Reserva and 9 Meses, as well as TSM from old vines, with the founding family still at the helm after more than three decades.
A modern Burgos-sector estate at Milagros producing the Valdubón Crianza, Reserva and Élite from high-altitude Tinto Fino vineyards on limestone soils, with a distinctive cave-cellar under the winery.