To help make Christmas extra merry and bright, we've teamed up with Spanish wines to give one lucky FOOD&WINE reader the chance to win the ultimate festive hamper full of six beautiful Spanish wines.  
While the idea of pairing each course with the perfect wine might seem too specialist for the rest of the year, Christmas is one of those times you need to get it right - especially if you have guests to impress. The richness of many festive dishes, from a special morning brunch to mince pies and brandy butter, mean that whatever wine you pair it with will have an impact. For example, it’s identifying that full-bodied red wines can drown the flavour of the turkey you’ve spent all day cooking but a subtle low-tannin red will keep everybody merry.

Losada

Toast, dark chocolate and liquorice flavours frame the black cherry and plum fruit in this expressive red, accented by mountain herb and mineral notes - in addition to Bierzo’s remarkable conflation of fruit, flowers, and herbs. Stockist: Searsons

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96 puntos Altos de Losada La Bienquerida 2017
95 puntos  Losada 2017
93 puntos Losada Godello 2018
93 puntos Altos de Losada El Cepón, vino de parcela 2016
93 puntos Altos de Losada 2017

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96 puntos Altos de Losada La Bienquerida 2017
95 puntos  Losada 2017
93 puntos Losada Godello 2018
93 puntos Altos de Losada El Cepón, vino de parcela 2016
93 puntos Altos de Losada 2017

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12 wines of CHRISTMAS
Whether you’re newly curious or you already have a wine rack full of Rioja, Spanish wines make for the perfect festive tipple and can be paired with everything from gamey meats to luscious desserts.

LOSADA (BIERZO), €19.95
Toast, dark chocolate and liquorice flavours frame the black cherry and plum fruit in this expressive red, accented by
mountain herb and mineral notes - in addition to Bierzo’s remarkable conflation of fruit, flowers, and herbs. (Searsons)

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Losada 2017
Sometimes called Pájaro Rojo because of its distinctive red bird label, this entry-point Mencía from Losada’s winemaker Amancio Fernández Gómez is a wonderful example of a distinctive Spanish grape. Produced from old vines on clay soils – not the slate that’s more common in Bierzo – this is plush, lightly oaked and comparatively ripe, with softer tannins and lower acidity than many of its competitors, but showing the variety’s classic red berry fruit and herbal undertone. Appealingly refreshing for a wine with 14.5% alcohol.

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LOSADA VINOS DE FINCA
Bierzo Altos de Losada Viñedos Viejos 2017
Score: 92
Release Price $42
Country Spain
Region Spain
Tasting Note
A velvety texture conceals depth and structure in this balanced red. Plum, cocoa, loamy earth and mineral notes mingle over well-integrated tannins. Balsamic acidity keeps this lively. Drink now through 2027. 3,700 cases made, 750 cases imported. — TM Issue Feb 29, 2020
LOSADA VINOS DE FINCA
Bierzo Altos de Losada La Bienquerida 2017
Score: 92
Release Price $77
Country Spain
Region Spain
Issue Web Only - 2019

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A marriage made in heaven
A more eloquent wine writer than myself may be able to put it into words, but me, well, I can’t quite say what it is that makes the red wine grape variety, Mencía, such a favourite of mine.
Native to the North West of Spain’s Denominación de Origen Bierzo, Mencía has been around since at least the middle ages. However, it wasn’t really until the 1990s that the potential of the variety started to be realised.

http://www.losadavinosdefinca.com/descargas/categoria17/mencia--do-bierzo-_-costa-news_mayo20.pdf

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Altos de Losada Godello 2017
97

White (Stone and not) fruit, pronouncedly
mineral (ash, Flint), crystallized citrus fruit, waxy, flowers; sweet-sour
fruit preserve palate, great texture, succulence and citric edge, huge in every
aspect.

Altos de Losada “El Cepón” 2017
97
.
Forest fruit preserve, balsamic waxy, organic and
mineral, remarkable young expression, toasted notes, flavorful   palate, soft, succulent, spicy aspect
(nutmeg, smoked paprika) deeply telluric.

Altos de Losada “La Bienquerida” 2017
99

Ripe, varietal fruit, sour berries, elegant
reductive character, creamy oak, tobacco, soft tannins, excellent acidity,
mineral and balsamic length and smoky and mineral finish.

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Altos de Losada Godello 2017
97

White (Stone and not) fruit, pronouncedly
mineral (ash, Flint), crystallized citrus fruit, waxy, flowers; sweet-sour
fruit preserve palate, great texture, succulence and citric edge, huge in every
aspect.

Altos de Losada “El Cepón” 2017
97
.
Forest fruit preserve, balsamic waxy, organic and
mineral, remarkable young expression, toasted notes, flavorful   palate, soft, succulent, spicy aspect
(nutmeg, smoked paprika) deeply telluric.

Altos de Losada “La Bienquerida” 2017
99

Ripe, varietal fruit, sour berries, elegant
reductive character, creamy oak, tobacco, soft tannins, excellent acidity,
mineral and balsamic length and smoky and mineral finish.

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Altos de Losada 2016
Score: 92
Release Price $42
Country Spain
Region Spain
Wine Spectator Issue Mar 31, 2019
Tasting Note
This plush red delivers black cherry and red plum flavors backed by licorice, espresso and smoky notes. Light tannins and juicy
acidity provide structure, then give way to pretty floral and mineral accents on the finish. Drink now through 2024. 2,000 cases
made.
–TM

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