Time for Tempranillo 🇪🇸🍷
ONE GRAPE. FIVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WINES.
Think you know Tempranillo? Most people picture one thing: a big, oaky red from Rioja. Spain’s most famous grape has a lot more to show you than that, and on 19 and 20 November Martha is pouring five bottles to prove it.
A white made from red grapes. A white Tempranillo. A rosé. Then two serious reds, one from Rioja and one from Ribera del Duero, side by side so you can taste the difference for yourself.
One grape. Five completely different glasses. Plenty to talk about.
🍷 THE LINEUP 🍷
🥂 El Cuentista 2022 — Pradorey, Ribera del Duero
We start with a trick. This wine is white, but it’s made from Tempranillo: the juice is pressed off the dark skins before it picks up any colour. It comes from a single plot on the Hoyo Dornajo estate at more than 800 metres, and only 7,395 bottles were made. Expect a few raised eyebrows.
🥂 Abel Mendoza Tempranillo Blanco 2023 — Abel Mendoza, Rioja
This time the grape itself is white. Abel Mendoza farms 42 small plots below the Sierra Cantabria, and he ferments this one in new French oak with wild yeasts, then leaves it on its lees for five months. Yellow plum, quince and a round, generous palate. Not your usual Rioja.
🥂 LC Rosé 2024 — López Cristóbal, Ribera del Duero
A family bodega in Roa blends Tinta del País (Ribera’s name for Tempranillo) with the local white grape Albillo Mayor. The result is fresh, fruity and very easy to love. Proof that Ribera does pink too.
🥂 Ukan 2019 — Ukan, Rioja Alavesa
Now for the big guns. Koldo Eguren, the fifth generation of a famous Rioja winemaking family, sources this wine from three old-vine plots in Laguardia planted in 1940, 1945 and 1966. It spends 16 months in French oak, and only around 15,000 bottles were made. This is Rioja at its most elegant.
🥂 Corimbo 2022 — Bodegas La Horra, Ribera del Duero
And the reply from Ribera. Organic bush vines around La Horra and Roa, never irrigated, then 14 months in French and American barrels. It’s darker and more muscular than Ukan, so you can line up Rioja against Ribera, glass for glass, and pick a side.
YOUR HOST
Martha has been bringing wine lovers and winemakers together for years, and Tempranillo is a grape she never gets tired of. She runs the room like a conversation, not a lecture. She wants to know which wines you love and why, she’ll invite you to score your favourites and compare notes with the table, and she makes you part of the whole experience. Join in as much or as little as you like. Questions are always encouraged.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
✔ Five Tempranillo wines, from white to rosé to red
✔ Tapas pairings to go with every glass
✔ An expert guided tasting with Martha
✔ Rioja vs Ribera, poured side by side: you get the final vote
€40 per person | Limited to 16 guests a night | Thursday 19 & Friday 20 November, 6:00–8:30pm
Martha’s Vineyard Moraira. Come thirsty, leave a Tempranillo convert.
White, Rosé & Red: The Many Faces of Tempranillo
- 19 Nov 2026
- 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- 40.00€
- Ctra. Moraira a Teulada, 42 Moraira
- http://marthasvineyard.es
Martha's Vineyard is a gathering place for wine lovers. Located right next to Clinica Moraira and Pepe La Sal Supermarket on the Moraira to Teulada Road
- martha@marthasvineyard.es
Martha is a retired diplomat for the Colombian government, having years of experience in the organization and creation of cultural events including the famous annual Latin American Festival in Istanbul. Over the last 15 years Martha lived in the Southern California wine area and contributed to the creation of numerous wine experiences, such as chocolate wine pairings for some of the biggest wineries of the area. Now living in Moraira, she is in a mission to bring wine lovers together with the wine makers of Alicante in a series of fun, entertaining and educational events.
