Our wine list!

At Ziryab we select each and every wine personally – through numerous wine tastings to select the right wines for you! (yes, our job is very, very tough…. ). As a result, each wine has been thought through carefully, depending on what we think accompanies well the style of food we serve, and the kind of customers who walk through our doors. Our team includes several certified sommeliers, but all our waiters and waitresses are trained in serving wines and in recommending the best wine for your meal. The right wine depends on the day, the weather, the accompanying food and, of course, the company you are in!

Here is our current wine list (we change it every season to bring you new fresh wine selections!)

These are wines by bottle. By glass we have various great wines, on the board in the restaurant! 

RED WINE

  

LIGHT-BODIED REDS (FRUITY)

Catalonia

PARA-ROQUES (Sumoll old vine  3m  Penedès).  23.00
Friendly elegance, black fruit and raspberries (uses natural carbonic maceration method)

GANA (Garnacha  Conca de Barberà) • electric fruit fizz.  4.50/ 22.00                                                                 

Greece

MAVRO KALAVRYTINO (Mavro  12m  Peloponnese)   27.00
Ripe red fruit and spice.

MEDIUM BODY


Catalonia

♀TREMPAT (Trepat  5m  Conca de Barberà) • floral, wild strawberry.  26.00
BATLLIU NERO (Pinot Noir  Costers Segre) • elegant high-altitude Pinot. 33.00

 Rest of Spain
                                GALLINITA CIEGA (young Tempranillo  9m  Ribera del Duero)  5.10/ 25.00
Explosion of red fruit (uses natural carbonic maceration method), long in the mouth.

SUPERNOVA (Mantonegro old vine  13m  Mallorca).   25.50
Fresh, concentrated, juicy.

♀TEIXUGO (Caiño Longo, Sousón  18m  Galicia) • Balsamic, mineral.  29.00

France

SEVEN SUMMIT (Syrah & others)  7m  Languedoc-Roussillon)    28.00
Tannic, bold and dry.

Italy
                                                     ETNA ROSSO (Nerelo Mascalese, cement 12m  Sicily)   40.00
Sicilian red with a volcanic character.

FULLER-BODIED REDS

Catalonia

ERAVI INHERENT (Garnacha T.  4m  Penedès) • dark cherries, long.  32.00
790 PECATS (Garnacha, Syrah + 10m Penedès) • long, delicate, sinful. 36.50
SANG DE SAULÓ (Merlot  Alella)  • Depth and intense red fruit.  5.60 27.00
SERRES VELLES (Carinyena  6m  Penedès) • Vibrant, lively, jammy.   35.00

FULL-BODIED WITH ABSOLUTE FINESSE

Lebanon

CHATEAU MUSAR ROUGE 2017    57.50

Bordeaux refinery with a Mediterranean character.     
Bekaa Valley. Winery Chateau Musar
Cabernet Sav, Carignan, Cinsault
12m in French oak barrels

Catalonia

CLOS GALENA 2019  59.00
Lip-smacking blend from the special Priorat wine region.                      
D.O.Q. Priorat
40% Garnacha, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Carinyena, 20% Syrah
12m in French oak barrels

Slovenia

MOVIA VELIKO RDECE 2011 (Natural!) 65.50
Deep and long in the mouth, dry, silky.
Goriška Brda, Primorski
70% Merlot, 20% Pinot Noir, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
6 years in French oak barrels

Ribera del Duero (Spain)

DOMINIO DEL ÁGUILA RESERVA 2020  78.50
Fine, serious, elegant.
D.O. Ribera del Duero. Winery: Bodega del Águila
100% Tempranillo
27m in French oak barrels

Rioja (Spain)

200 MONGES RESERVA RIOJA
   Melts in mouth.  
Reserva 2012   69.00
Gran Reserva 2006  95.00
D.O.Q. Rioja
85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, 5% Garnacha
20m in French and American oak barrels
Try a vertical tasting (different vintages)!    

ORANGE WINE (SKIN CONTACT)

Catalonia

AUS ORANGE (Pansa blanca + rosada  SKINs 2 m*  Alella)   5.40/ 26.50
Saline, long and balanced.

Rest of Spain

NAUDA (Sauv. blanc, Macabeu, SKINs 11 m  Rioja) • acidic crunchiness.   28.00
♀REVOLUCIÓ SOLAR (Garnacha, SKINs 3m  Priorat)   35.00
Nutty almost sherry flavours, intense and gorgeous, best in the company of food.

ROSÉ

Turkey

PASAELI BLUSH (Çalkarasi,  Aegean, SW Turkey) • dry, light.  5.20/ 25.00

Catalonia

♀AMFITEATRE (Sumoll, Xarel·lo 7m  Penedès) • ripe fruit elegance.  27.00

Rest of Spain

FORLONG (Tintilla de Rota, Cab. Sauvignon  Cadiz)   26.50
Silky fresh, with texture and body in mouth.                                                     

WHITES

DRY WHITES

Catalonia

7 PAMS (Xarel·lo) • mineral with a touch of nuttiness.          4.90 24.50
QUARS PRIORAT (Garnacha)  10m • fine, elegant, oak-aged.  34.00
RANDOM BLANC (Parellada, skin contact)• discrete, soft.         25.00

Rest of Spain

AKAET BLANCO (Natural!) (local varieties)  5m • volcanic.         33.50
ALBARIÑO CAZAPITAS (Albariño) • citric & salivating.           25.00
TXAKOLI NEKAZARI (local varieties)  10m • dry, fresh.              26.00
UBE EL REVENTÓN (Palomino)  • notes of sherry.        5.80 29.00

France

DOMAINE RÔLET (Chardonnay)  14m • rounded, oak-aged.    34.50

MORE FRUITY OR FLORAL

Catalonia

SURREALISTA (local varieties) • creamy, long.                     4.60 19.00 
TU, CHE (Natural funky!) (Chenin blanc) • ecclectic, cider-like.       27.00

Rest of Spain

CANTAYANO (Verdejo)  8m • less tropical, more real.               26.00
LIRONDO (Natural funky!) (natural-style verdejo) • unfiltered.         28.50 

France

LUNE À BOIRE (Riesling et al) • floral aromas, fresh, full.            27.00

MAKE IT SPECIAL: WHITE RIOJA IS THE NEW RED 

200 MONGES GRAN RESERVA BLANCO 2008 • depth; exceptional white Rioja.               72.50
D.O.C. Rioja (Spain) • 100%Viura  24m French oak barrels

PIRATA (MAGNUM, 1.5L) 2016 (Natural!)• aromatic, spiced, discreet but so much to say. 135.50
Rioja/Segovia (Spain) • winery Contador • Verdejo, Viura, Garnacha, Malvasía (old vines)  7m, unfiltered and off the spectrum

BUBBLES

Catalonia

Cava

LOXAREL GARNACHA BLANCA • fresh and original.       4.90 24.50
(Garnacha, aged in bottle 15m, brut nature (the driest type of cava)

Ancestrals
“Ancestral” or “Pet-nat” was the original way of making sparkling wines, discovered by mistake in the 16th Century. Unlike regular cavas or champagnes, no sugar is added and the grape juice ferments entirely in one bottle, naturally.

AL ROSA ANCESTRAL • (Macabeu, Xarel·lo, Sumoll)   5.40/ 27.00
SHHHHH! ANCESTRAL • (Parellada) delicious and nutty.   28.00

Rest of Spain

FRANCISCO DE CALA VERMUT ESPUMOSO  32.00
Cadiz (Spain) winery Reyes Magos• Palomino & Pedro Ximenez (Oloroso sherry 16 yrs & sweet wine Pedro Ximenez 5 yrs)
Sparkling vermouth!! Quite unique and spectacular. Made using the champenoise sparkling method. Sweet, refreshing.

France

CHAMPAGNE LARMANDIER EXTRA BRUT  76.00
A.O.C. Champagne (France) • 100% Chardonnay  24m – biodynamic
A wonderful champagne from a conscientious wine-maker. Toasty notes, citric, fresh.

DRY OPTION POST-DINNER

Pansal del Calàs sweet 1998 (Capçanes)
5.50 (100ml)27.00 (500ml)
Oak-aged. Old garnacha vines. (16.5% alc.)

Es Poma (La Vinyeta)
5.50 (100ml) 27.00 (500ml) (15.5% vol.)
Sweet wine of Empordà garnacha blended with Girona apples

Sereno “rancio”- style oxidised wine (La Vinyeta)
5.10 (100ml) 25.00 (500ml)
From Empordà, northern Catalonia. Garnacha grape (15.5% vol.)  

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Some background for the more avid drinkers… 

Catalan wines: Catalonia’s wine-making region is one that is sometimes underestimated among foreigners coming to Barcelona. It is, however, a land that makes fantastic wines and it’s a must to try some of its autochthonous varieties such as the Xarel.lo as a nice alternative to a regular Chardonnay, the citric fresh variety of Picapoll blanc, or the red varieties of Sumoll and Trepat. Garnatxa is a grape that is widely used in Catalan wines. It is also a region that is very experimental, much more than its somewhat more “classic” wine-growing Spanish neighbouring regions such as Rioja. They experiment a lot with different types of materials to age the wine in a way that will not influence the flavours too much (e.g. clay, cement, natural pools, storing under the sea, cool mountain caves, etc).

Wines from the Mediterranean: Ziryab has a growing selection of wines from all over the Mediterranean – some quite hard to come by in Barcelona. In fact, the Mediterranean marks the traditional route that the Phoenicians used to take when trading goods long before the Romans were doing it, and it is a little-known fact that the wine production tradition in the east of the Mediterranean (around where Lebanon lies today) dates back some 6000 years. We have chosen some fabulous wines from France, Italy, Lebanon and Morocco, to name a few…

Natural wines: we are now entering the world of natural wines! It’s a fabulous universe of flavours and really takes you back to the essence of wine-making: before we used additives, filtering, flavourings, oak ageing and other methods that affect the taste of the wine. Check out our blog post on natural wines to learn more on this topic, on the process of making natural wines, on the natural wine festivals you can go to and the natural wines you can try on our wine list!

Wine tasting: Try one of Ziryab’s tasting experience with paired wines! It is an amazing selection of combined flavours and textures, each tasting dish pairing perfectly with each of the 7 selected wines, and information cards about each wine and each pairing that you can take home with you. You can also give it as a gift voucher to a friend. A very special experience 🙂