History
In 2004, France’s most respected critic, Michel Bettane, got together with Spain’s legendary journalist, Jose Penin, to taste the two countries’ thirty-one best wines blind. Tastings like this often contain a shocker; this time it was that an obscure wine from Ribera del Duero made by a little-known French winemaker-tied 1994 Vega Sicilia for Bettane’s top red wine, edging out 2000 Chateau Latour. The upstart was 2002 Dominio de Atauta “Llanos...