2017 Belondrade y Lurton Rueda

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  2/27/2022 - EdgardoJM Likes this wine:

  Very good

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  1/25/2022 - Larsrar wrote: 91 Points

  Pale, intense, precise razor sharp acidity, a little oxidative (positive) Sherry note - both in nose & mouth.
  Full bodied, plenty of fruit, creamy texture, with a long finish.
  A very nice glass, that now - 5 years old - only is entering the plateau of maturity. Would like to taste it 8 - 10 years old!
  Make sure not to drink it colder that 11-12 degrees C, for it to show its best. Definitely a wine I would like to try again....

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  7/9/2021 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Tasting evening with Bas en Lennart (Thuis): [Tasted blind] I could not pinpoint it and was surprised to hear it was a oaked Verdejo from very old vines. 10 months on French barriques sur lie, which shows in its oily mouthfeel.
  On the nose: Spicy, marmelade, oak, citronella candle, unripe mango/pineapple. Slightly oxidative. On day 3 even apple sauce.
  On the palate: Pear, apple sauce, stone fruit. Slight bitterness in the long finish. High acidity

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  1/21/2020 - onivino33 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine is simply very good! 2017 is in its texture more "oily" then previous years. It needs time to open with time in your glas or decander or 3-4 years more to age. So much of everything for now, let it come a bit all together. for now 93, ahead 95.

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  4/28/2019 - forceberry wrote: 79 Points

  Fermented spontaneously. Aged for 10 months in 300-liter French oak casks. Blended, bottled and aged in bottles for another 5 months. 14% alcohol.
  
  Medium-deep lemon yellow color with subtle grassy green overtones. Very stuffy and woody nose with very little in the way of fruit: aromas of toffee, chopped nuts, cumin, some concentrated waxy character, a little bit of vanilla custard, light pineapple tones, a vegetal hint of white asparagus and a herbal touch of lifted minty character. The wine is powerful, concentrated and massively oaky on the palate with flavors of cooked cream, vanilla, pineapple, some browned butter, a little bit of apricot, light exotic spices, a hint of mango and an extracted touch of woody bitterness. The mouthfeel is oily and unctuous and the moderately high acidity manages to give only so much freshness and sense of structure to the wine. The finish is rich, long and powerful with heavily oak-driven aftertaste of spicy wood, creaminess, some browned butter, a little bit of apple sauce, light sweet notes of apricot jam, a hint of pineapple and a touch of vanilla.
  
  Ridiculously heavy, overdone and unbalanced Verdejo that really shows no sense of varietal character whatsoever. This is just all about wood, wood and wood. I can imagine the oak characteristics are very much to the fore when the wine is young and they will integrate with age, but I doubt this much oak will ever integrate fully with the fruit - at least not before the fruit flavors have faded away. Currently drinking this wine is akin to licking a toasted two-by-four plank. Perhaps an impressive modern white wine in its own right, but it is quite hard to assess its inherent quality, since to me it feels just very unbalanced and rather repugnant. Avoid.

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