Algueira Ribeira Sacra Carravel 2017 fww and dried in the blazing

and dried in the blazing Montilla sun on mats in the vineyards

Deep red and velvety colour

91 POINTS - James Suckling

This is clearly not an average Bourgogne blanc with weight texture and character way above its humble appellation label

Algueira Ribeira Sacra Carravel 2017 fww and dried in the blazingBoth Algueiras flagship Mencas are released five years after harvest. While the Pizarra hails from the warmer terroir of the Carballo Cobo vineyard, Carravel is drawn from several old vine terraces which hug a cool zone of perilously steep slate and schist soils in the Doade subregion. The fruit was hand harvested, then foot trodden and fermented with roughly 20% whole bunches in large wooden tronconique vats before spending between 12 and 24 months