A cheeky second comment. $16 euros for a 92 point whisky is fricking great but here's the thing: There's really decent stuff for even less. A $10 bottle by the likes of Juan Gil is just mind blowing value. By the way I have had the Juan Gil Blue which is very good but I don't enjoy it any more than the Silver. Another thing worth saying is that the region is really in danger from climate change. Not in twenty years time or ten years time, but right now. The south of Spain is drying up at an alarming rate. Jumilla wine is what it is because of that hot climate but it's a fine balancing act. The last few years have been relentlessly dry. One final thing. How about a review of the Jumilla of Castile: Toro? It's Tempranillo to the max and is symbolic of the incredible transformation of Spanish wine in the past 25 years.
You are spot on with the Jumilla region where the wines are big on both flavor and value. I recently picked up a 2018 Tabá for $15, and I am looking forward on enjoying a nice glass with some grilled steak in the near future. Keep up with the great, honest, no nonsense content. Much respect from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Taba great great monastrell for low price i love it, if you like the rustic garnacha tintorera you can try Buitre (really hard to find only spain sorry 2666 bottles), for the price really good.
I agree with you, this has been a region I've been trying to tell customers about for a while. And I can see it slowly building steam and getting recognized a bit more. But I also might lean a bit like you. Years ago I liked the style of wines I've tried from Jumilla quite a bit. But my taste has changed a bit. Granted it's been a few years, but the ones I've had seemed rich, big, bold and maybe almost a touch jammy. But after seeing your video, it reminded me I've had a limited selection from this region and I should give them a try again and maybe some other options available than a few years ago in my area.
Amaizing, how many solid wines come from Spain.Even when they don't impress me, I have respect for them. Your scores are 2-3 below competition or other wine experts.When you say 92 ,that's biggggg 😉 Thank you Mathew!
funnily enough I was looking at wine today in a local shop with the weekend in mind and a Rosso was the one I hovered over. I think you have made my mind up. Thanks Matthew I will go back later this week to purchase a bottle.
I actually posted on the wrong clip Doh. I was meaning to comment on the Brunello wines haha. I do enjoy Monastrell wines and have tried them from Yecla as well as Jumilla and they have a similar intensity. @@drmatthewhorkey
Hey Matt! My favorite is the Ego Bodegas Talento Organic Monastrell that sells for about $17AUD where I am Down Under. My wife keeps reminding me to pick some "Birdie Wine" and if you ever see the label you will know why. Also, when I think of Pizza, I think of Sicilian Nero d'Ávalo, especially when the crust is nice and charred. Cheers!
I love the value wine blinds. Thanks for another fun one. I just wish more of these, that Viña Elena Paraje Marín in particular, were available in the US Upper Midwest.
I was lucky and won a trip to visit Juán Gil in 2022. An amazing day, we got the full VIP treatment, even having lunch with the head winemaker Bartolomé Abellán even though it was harvest time (I guess he still needs to eat, but anyway a privilege).
Thank you for your friendly words! If one day you are in Jumilla, do not hesitate to visit us! For us it will be a pleasure! PS: It's LUZÓN with a strong 'Z'! 😁
"Blueberries, Spice & Incense" would make a great song title in the Nuggets collection records... I tried to like those Jumilla wines, but I guess they are not for me. I had the Juan Gil and thought it had a similar profile as a less refined Tannat from Uruguay. Altos de Luzón, I had a sip, and it didn't entice me, though it was way more interesting to me than the Juan Gil. The thing is, they are not cheap at all in Brazil, and I would rather have Argentine cab or Uruguayan Tannat than these wines.
Too funny !!! You have to admit this is a pretty obscure wine region, & yet I literally just had the El Goru blend last week 😅 & I have a bottle of the silver label 2018 Juan Gil I’ve yet to open 😊 ~ the El Goru was much much better 24 hours after I opened it
;D Nice Video. Jumilla Powah!!! i will go to jumilla in 2 weeks, i will go to bodegas luzon because for the prices they ofered the best experience, maybe bodegas cerron was close but luzon was the best opcion, juan gil they don't have a good enoturism. Well alceño has a few good wines.For the price i like Taba (Monastrell Finca Bacara) and Buitre (DO Manchuela Garnacha tintorera this one really hard to find). If you can find Los Losares (DO Manchuela not jumilla but close) they have monastrell pie franco and garnacha tintorera pie franco, old vines really good too for the bucks. And If you want to go high as you say Clio, Bruto, Las Gravas they are excelent for their price range.
Hi again, we survive Jumilla 😂, if you go there check Bodegas Luzon really great experience and Restaurante San Agustin amazing people there.I have to tell you a place write this name Bodegas Garcia de Lara (Villarubia de Santiago, Toledo) we contac them because love their wine La Cueva Colora they open their bodega only for us free and give us a full experience drink wine directly for their Barricas and Deposits of their next years free, we go to buy the Cueva Colora well we buy more wine of other call Villalobillos Airen Fermented in Barrica (We love red not white normally) we love it more than Pazos de Señorans Seleccion de Añada, we taste the Villalobillos Airen whit out barrica too and other one Villalobillos Tinta de la Pampana Blanca (a variety of red grape not good known the 2022 was amazing). Super Small Bodega yet to be known.... We buy a total of 60 bottles and they gifts us a few more.... and we still think have to buy more 🤣.
These aren´t wines I´ve ever liked that much. They can be good for BBQ or pizza but generally there are other styles I prefer. From Jumilla I actually found some chard good at far cheaper than from California.
Mathew, Great selection! These wines are so good for the money. I’m pretty sure that most people would like the Juan Gil as much or more than caymus and with Gil they can pocket 75 bucks. Clio El Nido? Pocket 100 over generic Napa. Thank you!
I just purchased a phenomenal Chilean wine from Costco $16.99 that blew me away: Sideral 2021 Cachapoal Andes. 73% Cab, 11% Syrah, 9% Carmenere, 4% Petit Verdot and 3% Cab Franc. I bought a few more bottles👍
There is a town in Spain called Sagunto, formerly known as Murviedro (in local dialect pronounced Morvedre) a lot of Monastrell/Mataro grapes were sent from that town to France, and looks like the word Mourvèdre is a derivative from the local dialect.
Have not tasted those wines, but I'm with you more medium bodied floral, red fruit.I purchased a bottle of Il Molino di Grace Gratius Toscana 2012 at the wine festival here in Vancouver. The only wine at the festival where I went WOW! when I tasted it. I know is not Spanish but Italy was the feature country. For my palate probably the best wine I have ever tasted. Great tasting! I will look for some of those wines, great value!
Not familiar with the region, but interesting. I prefer lighter, more elegant wines than this, but I like to entertain and these sound like crowd pleasers without breaking the bank.
El Nido (The Nest) might be the most iconic wine in Jumilla. However, if you don't want something that leaves a hole in your wallet, Clio ($40-$60) is a wine that you might fall in love with.
I drank a bit much of Jumilla and now dont like it that much anymore - great wine, but as said, had too much of it. When I drank Jumilla wines a lot, i mostly went for casa castillo las gravas. If one looked carefully one could find it for < 20€ (the exchange course € to $ is nearly 1 to 1). Unfortunately Parker et al. hyped the winery quite a bit. The bigger El franco recently got 100 Parker points for one vintage, and even the las gravas was scored up to 96 or so. So obviously, this had a not so lovely effect on pricing. And while it is a nice whine, there are plenty of good full bodied reds in Bordeaux for example, for this price range.
@@ivansanchez6202in Germany you could get a 3 bottles for 50€ offer at vinos some years ago, so not even 17$. Now cheap offers are no where to be seen. As said, i drank waaaay too uch of it and really can´t stand it anymore so I dont care that much. Actually the raised price prevented me from buying the 2020 vintage, which was good because i had tons of the 2017 vintage left, and some 16, 18 and 19. In the end i had so much of the stuff still on stock that i got rid of some of it by sending my parents a package (Sinice i buy more wine then i can drink in the end and it often happens that in the end my taste changes a bit, thats my usual way to manage excessive amounts of bottles on stock).
I love that you put the spotlight on spanish wine regions outside of Rioja/Ribera. Juan Gil and Paraje Marin are here in Germany about 10-15€. Spanish Wines are sometimes wayyyy to cheap 😃
Wow, I was waiting for this review. $16 for 92 points sums up Jumilla. Blockbuster wine and value. Not just Jumilla though but all of the regions of South West Spain. It's big but great at what it does. Somewhat like great new world wine but fantastic value. Juan Gil have a great range. WT
I'm sittin here about to open yet another bottle of the Juan Gil Monastrell. This has been my go-to red wine for a dozen years. I first heard of Jumilla at a local wine store. I was wandering around carrying a familar, but underwhelming bottle of Priorat in my hand. I guess that the dissatisfaction was evident on my face. The wine merchant asked, "if you're not certain about this, I have a better wine in a similar style that is ten dollars cheaper?" I was delighted and he showed me the 2010 Juan Gil Jumilla. It was exactly what I wanted- serious wine, well made, in a big style. Drinking this led me to the rest of the family - first, the juan Gil 18 Meses which is heavily (sometimes clumsily) oaked, but delicious. second El Nido the winery cofounded by the Juan Gil family and Chris Ringland, acclaimed Australian winemaker, that makes wine from the same vineyards as Juan Gil. Their three El Nido bottlings: Clio, El Nido and Corteo are superb blends with only the first two available in the US. Clio is superb for $45 to $60, El Nido at $124 to $200 is out of my price bracket. Surprisingly there is a butcher's shop in Moscow that sells the amazing Corteo Shiraz/monastrell blend. I once went to Barcelona on vacation in a wine store. The owner spoke no English. I spoke no Spanish, we agreed that I would explore. After 20 minutes I found my prize, a bottle of the silver label Juan Gil. I pulled it out beaming. The owner was just as delighted communicating without words that he very much approved of my choice. Today there are a bunch of $60 Napa Cab Savs that I enjoy just as much as the Juan Gil monastrell. But the Juan Gil is $16 across threet, or $11.95 mail order. How woud you spend your money? Junilla is a hidden jewel. Thanks for shining a light on it.
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A cheeky second comment. $16 euros for a 92 point whisky is fricking great but here's the thing: There's really decent stuff for even less. A $10 bottle by the likes of Juan Gil is just mind blowing value. By the way I have had the Juan Gil Blue which is very good but I don't enjoy it any more than the Silver. Another thing worth saying is that the region is really in danger from climate change. Not in twenty years time or ten years time, but right now. The south of Spain is drying up at an alarming rate. Jumilla wine is what it is because of that hot climate but it's a fine balancing act. The last few years have been relentlessly dry.
One final thing. How about a review of the Jumilla of Castile: Toro? It's Tempranillo to the max and is symbolic of the incredible transformation of Spanish wine in the past 25 years.
You’ll see some Toro soon 😉
@@drmatthewhorkeyToro doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The wines are so affordable.
Nice video with spanish wines, please more of them. I love the wine Clio from Bodegas El Nido.
One of the Jumilla icons!
Clio is delicioso
You are spot on with the Jumilla region where the wines are big on both flavor and value. I recently picked up a 2018 Tabá for $15, and I am looking forward on enjoying a nice glass with some grilled steak in the near future.
Keep up with the great, honest, no nonsense content. Much respect from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Taba great great monastrell for low price i love it, if you like the rustic garnacha tintorera you can try Buitre (really hard to find only spain sorry 2666 bottles), for the price really good.
Thank you, and that is a VALUE!
I agree with you, this has been a region I've been trying to tell customers about for a while. And I can see it slowly building steam and getting recognized a bit more. But I also might lean a bit like you. Years ago I liked the style of wines I've tried from Jumilla quite a bit. But my taste has changed a bit. Granted it's been a few years, but the ones I've had seemed rich, big, bold and maybe almost a touch jammy. But after seeing your video, it reminded me I've had a limited selection from this region and I should give them a try again and maybe some other options available than a few years ago in my area.
They are crowd pleasers for sure, probably the exact type of wines your clients want.
Amaizing, how many solid wines come from Spain.Even when they don't impress me, I have respect for them.
Your scores are 2-3 below competition or other wine experts.When you say 92 ,that's biggggg 😉
Thank you Mathew!
Ahhh thanks as I try to be a bit more conservative!
had my first jumilla wine recently and loved it! excellent video :)
Can be great QPR
funnily enough I was looking at wine today in a local shop with the weekend in mind and a Rosso was the one I hovered over. I think you have made my mind up. Thanks Matthew I will go back later this week to purchase a bottle.
Enjoy!!! Which wine?
I actually posted on the wrong clip Doh. I was meaning to comment on the Brunello wines haha. I do enjoy Monastrell wines and have tried them from Yecla as well as Jumilla and they have a similar intensity. @@drmatthewhorkey
Great video. I need to get more familiar with Jumilla.
It's worth the effort!
Have had Juan Gil after Wine King had some and recommended it. Great wine for the money. Very smooth.
😮😮😮
Jumila is a region I need to try more wine from. I’ve only had the Juan Gil wines.
Makes sense as they are some of the most readily available.
Nice video! I like the Reveal All at the end rather than the single reveal after each tasting. I think it flows better.
Nice, some people like apples some like oranges.
Jumilla never steered me wrong
Always dependable QPR
Hey Matt! My favorite is the Ego Bodegas Talento Organic Monastrell that sells for about $17AUD where I am Down Under. My wife keeps reminding me to pick some "Birdie Wine" and if you ever see the label you will know why. Also, when I think of Pizza, I think of Sicilian Nero d'Ávalo, especially when the crust is nice and charred. Cheers!
Birdie wine LOLOLOL
I love the value wine blinds. Thanks for another fun one. I just wish more of these, that Viña Elena Paraje Marín in particular, were available in the US Upper Midwest.
Jumilla wines are readily available in the USA, in fact most of the wines are exported to USA
@@drmatthewhorkey I'll have to keep searching. Thanks!
Directing viewers to great values using your tasting skills is why I watch.
Thanks!
I was lucky and won a trip to visit Juán Gil in 2022. An amazing day, we got the full VIP treatment, even having lunch with the head winemaker Bartolomé Abellán even though it was harvest time (I guess he still needs to eat, but anyway a privilege).
Nice experience! Lots of jamon too???
Thank you for your friendly words! If one day you are in Jumilla, do not hesitate to visit us! For us it will be a pleasure!
PS: It's LUZÓN with a strong 'Z'! 😁
I hope to get there soon!
Jumilla is my go to for great value. Montgó, Gil and especially Casa Castillo. Thanks for some new recommendations
If you can try some DO Manchuela or Almansa and close they make very good wine and low prices......
Thanks for watching!
"Blueberries, Spice & Incense" would make a great song title in the Nuggets collection records...
I tried to like those Jumilla wines, but I guess they are not for me. I had the Juan Gil and thought it had a similar profile as a less refined Tannat from Uruguay. Altos de Luzón, I had a sip, and it didn't entice me, though it was way more interesting to me than the Juan Gil. The thing is, they are not cheap at all in Brazil, and I would rather have Argentine cab or Uruguayan Tannat than these wines.
I'm sure that the Argentine and Uruguayan wines are much better value for money down there, esp with taxes on imported wine being high
Too funny !!! You have to admit this is a pretty obscure wine region, & yet I literally just had the El Goru blend last week 😅 & I have a bottle of the silver label 2018 Juan Gil I’ve yet to open 😊 ~ the El Goru was much much better 24 hours after I opened it
The Goru 38 barrels are amazing if you like Goru you will be surprise for the quality, and Paco Mulero 20 months really good too.
Hahha that is ironic!
;D Nice Video. Jumilla Powah!!! i will go to jumilla in 2 weeks, i will go to bodegas luzon because for the prices they ofered the best experience, maybe bodegas cerron was close but luzon was the best opcion, juan gil they don't have a good enoturism. Well alceño has a few good wines.For the price i like Taba (Monastrell Finca Bacara) and Buitre (DO Manchuela Garnacha tintorera this one really hard to find). If you can find Los Losares (DO Manchuela not jumilla but close) they have monastrell pie franco and garnacha tintorera pie franco, old vines really good too for the bucks. And If you want to go high as you say Clio, Bruto, Las Gravas they are excelent for their price range.
Ohhh have a lot of fun and eat a lot of Jamón for me
@@drmatthewhorkey Thanks we will have a lot of fun for sure!! :D Una de Jamon seguro que cae ;)
Hi again, we survive Jumilla 😂, if you go there check Bodegas Luzon really great experience and Restaurante San Agustin amazing people there.I have to tell you a place write this name Bodegas Garcia de Lara (Villarubia de Santiago, Toledo) we contac them because love their wine La Cueva Colora they open their bodega only for us free and give us a full experience drink wine directly for their Barricas and Deposits of their next years free, we go to buy the Cueva Colora well we buy more wine of other call Villalobillos Airen Fermented in Barrica (We love red not white normally) we love it more than Pazos de Señorans Seleccion de Añada, we taste the Villalobillos Airen whit out barrica too and other one Villalobillos Tinta de la Pampana Blanca (a variety of red grape not good known the 2022 was amazing). Super Small Bodega yet to be known.... We buy a total of 60 bottles and they gifts us a few more.... and we still think have to buy more 🤣.
These aren´t wines I´ve ever liked that much. They can be good for BBQ or pizza but generally there are other styles I prefer. From Jumilla I actually found some chard good at far cheaper than from California.
Not my style of wine either but I recommend it a lot bc it fits a lot of palates
hmm, Jumila Blue label was horrible, I wonder if this one is better as blue was ruined by ungodly amount of toasty oak
I think Silver label is very often good
Mathew, Great selection! These wines are so good for the money. I’m pretty sure that most people would like the Juan Gil as much or more than caymus and with Gil they can pocket 75 bucks. Clio El Nido? Pocket 100 over generic Napa. Thank you!
Try Bruto if you can find it. Best Monastrell i ever try. Love Clio. And from Casa Castillo Las Gravas really really good, but i like Bruto more.
Agreed!! Jumilla really has a lot to offer for fans of big reds
Thanks - I've never heard of it but will seek out! @@ivansanchez6202
OMFG. - so nuch better than Caymus - none of the mega purple
My first Jumilla was a Juan Gil , and I enjoyed it !!!
Always a solid wine!
Your Wine 4 immediate bright reaction tells a story, thank you for that. Keep it going!
ahhh thanks
Casa Castillo is a producer I like.
nice
I just purchased a phenomenal Chilean wine from Costco $16.99 that blew me away: Sideral 2021 Cachapoal Andes. 73% Cab, 11% Syrah, 9% Carmenere, 4% Petit Verdot and 3% Cab Franc. I bought a few more bottles👍
What a deal!!!
There is a town in Spain called Sagunto, formerly known as Murviedro (in local dialect pronounced Morvedre) a lot of Monastrell/Mataro grapes were sent from that town to France, and looks like the word Mourvèdre is a derivative from the local dialect.
Didn't know that!
Have not tasted those wines, but I'm with you more medium bodied floral, red fruit.I purchased a bottle of Il Molino di Grace Gratius Toscana 2012 at the wine festival here in Vancouver. The only wine at the festival where I went WOW! when I tasted it. I know is not Spanish but Italy was the feature country. For my palate probably the best wine I have ever tasted.
Great tasting! I will look for some of those wines, great value!
Nice!! Happy hunting for Jumilla wines!
Not familiar with the region, but interesting. I prefer lighter, more elegant wines than this, but I like to entertain and these sound like crowd pleasers without breaking the bank.
Then these are the way to go!
El Nido (The Nest) might be the most iconic wine in Jumilla. However, if you don't want something that leaves a hole in your wallet, Clio ($40-$60) is a wine that you might fall in love with.
Two icons!
@@drmatthewhorkey Sure they are, anything from Juan Gil is top Jumilla. I think the Spanish are the best making the Monastrell.
I drank a bit much of Jumilla and now dont like it that much anymore - great wine, but as said, had too much of it.
When I drank Jumilla wines a lot, i mostly went for casa castillo las gravas. If one looked carefully one could find it for < 20€ (the exchange course € to $ is nearly 1 to 1). Unfortunately Parker et al. hyped the winery quite a bit. The bigger El franco recently got 100 Parker points for one vintage, and even the las gravas was scored up to 96 or so. So obviously, this had a not so lovely effect on pricing. And while it is a nice whine, there are plenty of good full bodied reds in Bordeaux for example, for this price range.
They fuck us greatly i have few casses of Las Gravas as you say 20€--25€ and now 45€ well play parker....
They are not my style of wines but a lot of people LOVE them
@@ivansanchez6202in Germany you could get a 3 bottles for 50€ offer at vinos some years ago, so not even 17$. Now cheap offers are no where to be seen. As said, i drank waaaay too uch of it and really can´t stand it anymore so I dont care that much. Actually the raised price prevented me from buying the 2020 vintage, which was good because i had tons of the 2017 vintage left, and some 16, 18 and 19. In the end i had so much of the stuff still on stock that i got rid of some of it by sending my parents a package (Sinice i buy more wine then i can drink in the end and it often happens that in the end my taste changes a bit, thats my usual way to manage excessive amounts of bottles on stock).
I love that you put the spotlight on spanish wine regions outside of Rioja/Ribera. Juan Gil and Paraje Marin are here in Germany about 10-15€. Spanish Wines are sometimes wayyyy to cheap 😃
Those are some FABULOUS prices!!!
Wow, I was waiting for this review. $16 for 92 points sums up Jumilla. Blockbuster wine and value. Not just Jumilla though but all of the regions of South West Spain. It's big but great at what it does. Somewhat like great new world wine but fantastic value. Juan Gil have a great range. WT
I figured you’d be ALL about this video!
@@drmatthewhorkey Oops, I meant south east Spain. I love the region but there's great under the radar stuff all over the country.
I'm sittin here about to open yet another bottle of the Juan Gil Monastrell. This has been my go-to red wine for a dozen years. I first heard of Jumilla at a local wine store. I was wandering around carrying a familar, but underwhelming bottle of Priorat in my hand. I guess that the dissatisfaction was evident on my face. The wine merchant asked, "if you're not certain about this, I have a better wine in a similar style that is ten dollars cheaper?" I was delighted and he showed me the 2010 Juan Gil Jumilla. It was exactly what I wanted- serious wine, well made, in a big style. Drinking this led me to the rest of the family -
first, the juan Gil 18 Meses which is heavily (sometimes clumsily) oaked, but delicious.
second El Nido the winery cofounded by the Juan Gil family and Chris Ringland, acclaimed Australian winemaker, that makes wine from the same vineyards as Juan Gil.
Their three El Nido bottlings: Clio, El Nido and Corteo are superb blends with only the first two available in the US. Clio is superb for $45 to $60, El Nido at $124 to $200 is out of my price bracket. Surprisingly there is a butcher's shop in Moscow that sells the amazing Corteo Shiraz/monastrell blend.
I once went to Barcelona on vacation in a wine store. The owner spoke no English. I spoke no Spanish, we agreed that I would explore. After 20 minutes I found my prize, a bottle of the silver label Juan Gil. I pulled it out beaming. The owner was just as delighted communicating without words that he very much approved of my choice. Today there are a bunch of $60 Napa Cab Savs that I enjoy just as much as the Juan Gil monastrell. But the Juan Gil is $16 across threet, or $11.95 mail order. How woud you spend your money?
Junilla is a hidden jewel. Thanks for shining a light on it.
A Jumilla lover! Nice story about the shop owner in Barcelona!