2020 Alvarez y Diez Verdejo Sotomonte

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87.8 points

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  8/17/2023 - pinoteer Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Delicious summer sipper, plus good with food. Just right acidity balancing the tropical fruit flavors. Is there a better $10 white??

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  4/6/2023 - pinoteer Likes this wine: 88 Points

  No formal tasting notes, but quite good. Went well with an Asian fish dish. Seems like a really good value at $10. 88-89.

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  6/28/2022 - corkgonebad Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Pear, pineapple, lime, silky. Great oyster wine. A summer quaffer for $10.

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  5/2/2022 - Eoisa wrote: 84 Points

  Tasted at 12C(~54F). No aeration or decanting.
  
  Appearance:
  A very pale, clear yellow color. Reminiscent of a stationary pad.
  
  Nose:
  There are easily recognizable primary notes of fresh cut grass, lemon, lychee and pineapple. While the bouquet is of a nice, medium intensity, it quickly becomes apparent that this wine does not go much deeper in its aromatic complexity.
  
  Palate:
  This wine is dry with high acidity; the medium body plays nicely if not predictably with the medium amount of alcohol present. The Flavor is light, primarily consisting of under-ripe green apple, just ripe lemon, kiwi, pineapple, guava, and toasted fennel seeds. The flavor is, at first, quite lovely, but it quickly devolves into a hum-drum cacophony of easily distinguishable (if not tedious) flavors. The end is short and lackluster.
  
  Overall, this wine is clean cut, laissez-faire, and frustratingly elusive. It took me a long time to decide if I liked it or not. While it think it is an acceptable wine to sip on a lukewarm day, I find it is slightly disappointing because the Sotomonte could have really been a rockstar if there was more aromatic complexity or a longer finish. Can this wine live in a properly maintained cellar until 2025? Of course, but the real question is should it? I can't imagine that this wine would get any better with age, drink now and spare yourself the cellar space.

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