The 2006 Castell de Falset is a blend of 50% old vine Garnacha, 25% Carinena and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 12 months in new French oak. It has a ripe, toasty bouquet with blackberry and scorched earth aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp acidity on the entry, but pinched black earthy fruit leads to an abrupt, terse finish. Drink now-2015. Importer: Cat Wine USA LLC; www.catwineusa.com

The purple-colored 2005 Castell de Falset is composed of 50% Carinena, 25% Garnacha, and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 12 months in French oak. The alluring nose offers up wood smoke, mineral, underbrush, blueberry, and black cherry. This leads to a medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced wine with serious depth, loads of spicy, savory fruit, and a masculine personality. This large-scaled effort will evolve for another 4-6 years and offer prime drinking from 2013 to 2025. Importer: Patrick Mata and Alberto Orte, Ole Imports, New Rochelle, NY; tel. (914) 740-4724

The 2004 Castell de Falset is composed of 50% Carinena, 25% Garnacha, and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 12 months in French oak. Purple-colored, it has a superb bouquet, of cedar, mineral, scorched earth, pencil lead, black cherry, and blackberry. This leads to an intensely flavored, sweetly-fruited, plush wine with incipient complexity and elegance. It conceals enough silky tannin to support 3-5 years of further cellaring and will be at its best from 2012 to 2025. Importer: Patrick Mata, Ole Imports; www.oleimports.com

This rustic blend of 45% Grenache, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Tempranillo, aged in tank as well as American and French oak, reveals plenty of sweet fruit, a fleshy character, not a great deal of complexity, but good roundness, lovely ripeness, and copious kirsch, black currant, and berry fruit flavors. Crisp acidity gives the wine tanginess. Drink it over the next 2-3 years. Importer: Jorge Ordonez, Fine Estates From Spain, Dedham, MA; tel. (781) 461-5767