Castillo Perelada, Aires de Garbet, Empordà, Spain, 2015

Castillo Perelada, based in the village of Peralada (note the slight difference in spelling), is the region’s biggest producer. Its technical director, Delfi Sanahuja Font, produces a fascinating range of clearly differentiated and consistently high-quality wines from its own 150ha of vines, as well as a further 150ha of purchased grapes. This pure Grenache, from a spectacular sea-facing terraced vineyard of brown schist, is a clear deep red colour. There are warm, layered aromas of vivid plum fruit, pine groves in summer and warm broken stone. On the palate it’s deep, expressive and spicy; its innate richness is lent a finely judged balance by bright tannins and acids (20% whole-bunch fruit is used).