Six Spanish wines appear in the Top 100 published every year by the North American magazine Wine Spectator. They are chosen among all the brands in the world which get more than 90 points. Campo Eliseo 2002 (94 points), Altos del Luzón (93 points), Les Terrasses 2003 (92), Emilio Moro 2003 (92), Haciena Monasterio Crianza 2001 (92) and Lagar de Cervera 2004 (90) are the ones in the exclusive podium of the chosen ones.

From the first wine, the Wine Spectator team says that the wine, which comes out of a partneship between brothers Lurton and consultants Dany and Michel Rolland, shows quality increase of Toro wines. As to Altos de Luzón, the magazine highlights the growth potential of Jumilla, a still new area at an international level, as well as its exuberant floral aromas “well integrated with the tanned notes of the oak”. Álvaro Palacios is lifted up again in an international classification, reaching the second position with his Les Terrases. Palacios is recognized as “one of the most important wine producers in Spain”. In the third place, we find the legendary Moro family, who has been making wine in Ribera del Duero for more than 120 years. Nowadays, they cultivate 70 hectares of high quality red wine, aged between 16 and 31 years old. In the forth position, the excellent work of the renowned enologist Peter Sisseck in Hacienda Monasterio is rewarded. This wine has been described as “elegant and refined”. The only Spanish white wine is the albariño of Rías Baixas Lagar de Cervera, signed by Lagar de Fornelos, property of Bodegas La Rioja Alta since 1988.