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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2021 (based on 83 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by PacoHigon on 4/17/2022: Magnífica la evolución de este As Sorte que si bien comienza algo reducido pronto da paso a una franca expresión frutal, con notas de fruta blanca y fruta con hueso, apuntes florales, algo de aromáticas y cierta mineralidad. En boca la entrada es muy buena, pasa cremoso, con suave salinidad, notable frescura, delicados amargos, largo y con profundidad. Rafa destacó en la cata que era más importante la parcela que la variedad. (581 views) | | | Tasted by Danielgbm on 7/14/2019 & rated 94 points: This is a superb wine, everything on its place , buy as much as you can get,, excellent (1030 views) | | | Tasted by MAOC on 8/10/2018: At Lyles. Feels like this is just properly open for business: green apple, white flower, a herb-like savoury edge and a mineral backdrop, great balance of richness and freshness. Plenty of time and interest still left. **** (1144 views) | | | Tasted by PT insurgent on 4/20/2015: Nose of smoke, oak, ginger, vanilla, apple, baked apple, peach, nectarine very Burgundian in style.
Palate is smoke, wet stone, citrus, stone fruit, creamy, fleshy, pear, apple.
Excellent body on this wine, very full but not fat.
Good bottle of wine. (2752 views) | | | Tasted by Bacchus&Ceres on 2/26/2015 & rated 93 points: CH and I thoroughly enjoyed this wine with an elegant and beautifully prepared and creative dinner at Terra Bistro on the last night of our week long ski vaca in Vail CO, 2015. Perfectly paired with spicy tuna, scallop and other fish dishes. this wine knocked our socks off. Complex minerality herbaceous fennel, white floral notes and at 100. the price point seemed like a great value...amazing wine with such complexity and harmony. well done. (2575 views) | | | Tasted by Man in Black on 2/7/2015: The wine is clear and bright with a pale lemon colour.
The nose is clean and developing, showing medium(+) intensity aromas of green fruit (very ripe green apples), bottle ageing (walnuts), herbaceous notes (fennel, anise), flowers (honeysuckle), oak (cedar, vanilla) and hints of citrus (lemon peel).
The wine is dry in the mouth with a medium(+) refreshing acidity. It has a medium(+) alcohol and a medium(+) body. It has medium(+) intensity flavours of green fruit (very ripe green apples), bottle ageing (walnuts), herbaceous notes (fennel, anise), flowers (honeysuckle), oak (cedar, vanilla) and hints of citrus (lemon peel). The finish is medium(+).
It is an outstanding quality wine. It has concentrated flavours, a persistent finish and all structural elements are in balance. It also shows complexity provided by oaky, herbaceous and bottle ageing notes.
Can drink now, but it has enough acidity and flavour concentration to develop more complex tertiary aromas over the next 3-5 years. (2486 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 4/2/2014 & rated 92 points: A blend from a few selected plots (Sortes) totalling 3.9ha (O Soro, Antiga, Os Caneiros, Falcoeira, Alexos, A Coalleira), on terraces of decomposed granite between 620 and 780 metres above sea level. Vines between 35 and 90 years old, wine aged in new oak on the fine lees for 8 months. A very precise and linear wine, still very youthful and a bit unformed, the distinct elements of acidity, oak, ripe lemon fruit and lees are all beautifully clean and well-defined but need time to integrate; the wine has a very specific, airy, breezy, slightly saline character, juicy bit still tight, excellent flavours and length. On a par with good Puligny Premier Cru (Les Perrières comes to mind), should easily last a decade. Bravo! At restaurant Q4, Melia Hotel, Bilbao. (2873 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 2/11/2014 & rated 90 points: Generous, ripe nose: Stone fruit, flowers with oaky creaminess. Round, nice fruit character on the palate, oaky but also good acidity and quite saline, persistent. Nice, but a little too young. 89-90+ (2499 views) |
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Spain is the third largest wine producing nation in the world, occupying the majority of the Iberian Peninsula with vast diversity in climate, culture, and of course, wine. From inky, dark reds of the [Priorat] to dry, white Finos from Andalusia, Spain can easily boast of elaborating a wide variety of notable styles. Within Spain there are currently 62 demarcated wine regions, of which a handful have gained international recognition: [Rioja], Priorat and [Ribera del Duero]. Yet these regions are only a small sample of the high quality wines Spain produces. Regions such as Cava, Penedes, Somontano, Galicia, Rueda and Jerez are only a few of the numerous regions worthy of exploration throughout Spain. Spain can also lay claim to having the most land under vine in the world, growing up to, by some accounts, 600 indigenous varietals of which Tempranillo is their most well known. Other popular varietals include [Garnacha], Bobal and Monastrell for reds and for whites; the infamous [sic] Palomino Fino grape which is used in the production of sherry wine, Pedro Ximenez in Montilla Morilles, Albarino used in the creation of the bright, effervescent wines of Galicia, and Verdejo in Rueda. - Source: - Catavino.net
Spain is not in the forefront of winemaking for its dessert wines, other than for its sweet wines from Sherry country including the highly revered Olorosos (when sweetened). But apart from Sherry Spain has a range of styles of dessert wines, ranging from the those made from the Pedro Ximenez grape primarily in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles) to luscious, red dessert wines made in the Mediterranean from the Garnacha (Grenache) grape. Some good Moscatels are made in Mallorca, Alicante and Navarre. The northwest corner of Spain, Galicia, with its bitter Atlantic climate, is even making dessert wines, called “Tostadillos” in the village of Ribadivia (similar to France’s “Vin de Paille”). The Canary Islands have made interesting dessert wines for centuries (they are mentioned by Shakespeare, for example) and in recent years the quality of winemaking has been improved and the Canary Islands wines are being better marketed now. The winemaking styles for “Vinos Dulces” are also diverse, from “Late Harvest” (Vendimia Tardía) to “Fortified Wines” (Fermentación Parcial). Based on in-spain.info.GaliciaGalicia is an autonomous region in the northwestern corner of Spain, north of Portugal. It is marked by an atlantic climate with frequent rain and moderate temperatures, especially along the coastal regions. There are five Denominación de Origen (DO) areas: Monterrei, Rías Baixas, Ribeira Sacra, Ribeiro and Valdeorras. Probably the best known wines are the Albariño wines from Rias Baixas, but all regions have seen increased interest in recent years. There has been also a notable resurgence of local grapes, like Godello, Treixadura or Loureiro.
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