April 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.
July 14, 2019 - This is a superb wine, everything on its place , buy as much as you can get,, excellent
August 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. ****
April 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.
February 26, 2015 - 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.
February 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.
April 2, 2014 - 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.
February 11, 2014 - 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+