This toasty-rich Chardonnay has a sweet, buttered popcorn style to its smooth and unctuous fruit, yet finishes clean and vinous.

This wine is a blend of 65 per cent 40-year-old Cariñena (Carignan), dry-farmed near Linares, with 25 per cent Merlot and 10 per cent Syrah.

The 2001 Manso de Velasco, made from 15 ha of 100-year-old vines in Lontué, is dark purple-red in colour with warm, sweet, rounded and full aromas.