Old vine, dry farmed Malvasia grapes from Rioja Alavesa at the hands of Bryan MacRobert are a wonderful thing. Fewer than one thousand bottles are made. Slowly fermented in oval cement tanks for a year, it has a light golden hue...

Bryan MacRobert originally hails from Swartland, South Africa, where he grew up and learned to cultivate vineyards and produce wine while studying viticulture and oenology at South Africa's Stellenbosch University. His travels after graduating took him to Rioja, Spain, where...