Teofilo Reyes, 15 Meses Tradicion Familiar, 2021

If one wine is more expensive than the other, OAK is almost always the reason.

Or, to be more specific, 'time spent in oak' seems to be the arbiter between a wine worth £10 and a wine worth £50.

That's because it's an expensive, finnicky process that adds a huge amount of complexity and flavour to the final product.

This wine, '15 meses', refers to its 15 months in French and American oak barrel. On a wine of this price, that is really special stuff. It comes through in the taste, giving those rioja Gran Reserva style wines.