The eponymous vessel always seems to lend a diffused, wide-open quality to the aromas of a wine - here white peach, melon and prickly white peppercorn provide a highly fragrant lift to the overall shape and balance. Tannins from the short maceration feel sanded-down and granular, raw lemon citrus gives a piquant twang, cutting through the smoky, pithy white grapefruit and tailing long into the finish. Find out more.

After seven months resting in chestnut barrels the wine is texturally rounded, with some fantastic clarity and poise to its well-defined structure. Blood orange, pink grapefruit and little red berries hang in the balance with floaty floral blossom and cracked peppercorn spice. A fascinating, perfectly-executed wine from a small single parcel of less than a hectare Find out more.

Pithy white grapefruit flesh dusted with toasty ground white peppercorns. So much texture, concentration and depth, for us this is up there with the finest expressions of Xarel-lo out there. Find out more.