Rezpiral Simeone & Apolonia Ramirez Tobaziche S6 070226ROBUST O Estranxeiro means "the foreigner"

O Estranxeiro means "the foreigner" in Galician — a nod to the fact that Eulogio Pomares is technically an outsider in Ribeira Sacra

and Cabernet Sauvignon

Carbonnieux Rouge is Cabernet Sauvignon-led

a fact that gets far less airtime than it should

a picnic or the elegant accompaniment to a gourmet dessert

Rezpiral Simeone & Apolonia Ramirez Tobaziche S6 070226ROBUST O Estranxeiro means "the foreigner"Tobaziche does not look like an agave. It looks like a tree: a long woody trunk topped with a shock of leaves, part of the karwinskii family, and it takes well over a decade in the ground before anyone can harvest it. The Ramirez family works with it in Oaxaca the way their people always have, roasting the agave in an earthen pit, fermenting in wood and distilling in small batches. Rezpiral bottles each of those batches separately, so what you are