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César Márquez 'Pico Ferreira' Mencia 2022
Super expressive, elegant & complex. Nose is complete and intoxicating out of the gate (tasted form a bottle under Coravin for a month). Great drinking flow shape and expression. The tannin and flavour from the stalk work adds interest. Delicacy with refinement. Savoury with licorice and spice playing with  woody herbs, baking spice. Edge of grip that intrigues. Perfumed.  Vibrant with a wonderful core of fruit. Earthy, forest floor & truffles at play. A lot to love here. Paul Kaa
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Forjas del Salnés 'Leirana - Finca Genoveva' Albariño 2021
150-200 Year Old Vines!
The Finca Genoveva is showing more complexity on the nose at this early stage in its life compared with the ‘A Telleira’, I suspect it won’t be long before they sit on par.Providing the definition of high-quality super fine acid. Like the ‘A Telleira’ the mouthfeel gently laces your tongue with a sheer delicacy. The scent Gutiérez describes is here, I’d add a little lanolin to the mix.It carries through to the palate, wrapping the core of intriguing flavours with those citru
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Forjas del Salnés 'Goliardo A Telleira' Albariño 2021
Simply delicious. Ridiculous for the coin. Citrus oils & ripe lemon juice from the kind of lemon you’d eat like an orange.Gutiérrez comment on development is interesting. I’d add that this is development pre-bottling as a winemaking choice. An approach that for mine offers more complete wine that has seen valuable exposure to oxygen that only help fruit of this quality harmonise and build complexity.Yes, there is a hint of straw & lanolin. It wraps a vibrant, energetic cor
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Recaredo Corpinnat 'Terrers' Brut Nature 2019
Enticing set of aromas & perfume showing their indigenous grape varieties and the complexity of the blend they offer. Beautiful mousse and fine textured phenolics harmonised by time on lees with excellent mid-palate weight. Phenolics are superb with a complex array of flavours, savoury, saline, earthy, a little rose. Almond and marzipan with a balancing, cleansing silvery bitterness. Beautifully balanced for 0g/l dose showing wonderful generosity of expression yet elegance. Woody herbs at pl
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César Márquez 'El Rapolao' Mencia 2023
A lift in perfume. Build in overt whole bunch stalk and spice with a sappy nature. Lined up toward Grenache a little more. A delicacy with a finely weighted palate. Refreshing and thirst-quenching, it draws you in. The palate is much more complete than the nose at the moment. I expect the whole bunch nose to resolve over the coming year to deliver a special wine.Paul Kaan, Wine DecocdedCésar's 2023 El Rapolao was sourced from a centenary plot in the coldest part of the village, wher
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César Márquez 'Pico Ferreira' Mencia 2023
Savoury, earthy, bolder, slightly richer iteration, admittedly starting from an elegant base across the range. Ripper more even tannin profiles still showing the whole bunch factor that will need time to settle. More expressive yet still needing a few years to settle. Raspberry liquorice. Layers of perfume. Paul Kaan, Wine DecocdedThe 2023 Pico Ferreira comes from a lieu-dit in the village of Corullón, a northwest-facing, shady slope planted with centenary vines on slate soils. It
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César Márquez 'Sufreiral' Mencia 2023
Just a little lift on a red fruit framework, super fine acid sitting on a youthful sharp side of the balance equation that will definitely fall into place nicely in time or with something tasty to eat in its youth. Ripe tannins and the most integrated whole bunch character of all the wines at the time of tasting. Savoury, juby, lick of plums, spice. Long even and flowing. DeliciousPaul Kaan, Wine Decocded Jan 2026The 2023 Sufreiral comes from a centenary plot in the village of Toral
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Forjas del Salnés 'Leirana - Finca Genoveva' Albariño 2022
150-200 Year Old Vines!
The 2022 Leirana Finca Genoveva shows very complete, combining power and elegance, volume and length, roundness and freshness, with good ripeness, slightly higher alcohol (12.9%) and amazing freshness and acidity parameters (pH 3.12 and 8.08 grams of acidity). It should be long lived in bottle.Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate 96+ PointsExcellent! Long & fine with incredible mid-palate weight. Precise, saline & poised. A wine that will comfortable play with top end of 1er c
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Guímaro Ribeira Sacra 'San Pedro' Mencia 2020
Guímaro’s wines draw you in. At this level, they move well beyond and above the playful, juby, joven styles. Complex, savoury, layered with sophisticated tannins all of Guímaro's top wines show a deft hand in élévage to elicit the personality of the fruit from which they are made.There's a build in weight and richness here over the Miño river sibling to this wine.The San Pedro has a beautiful acid balance. Savoury salami, spiced, energy and freshness, super complex. Harmonise
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Forjas del Salnés 'Goliardo A Telleira' Albariño 2022
The 2022 Goliardo A Telleira shows lots of finesse. They changed the élevage here to 1,500-litre foudre, which they think works better for Albariño than barrels, no matter how big they are, and this wine clearly shows it. It has the finesse of the sandy soils and a polished texture (a little more sleek, a bit à la Chenin) but still lively and with pungent flavors.Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate 95+ PointsMy Note on the 2021: Simply delicious. Ridiculous for the coin. Citrus oil
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Nanclares y Prieto ‘Coccinella’ Albariño 2024
This single parcel, Inxertal, is inland and a site that recently had to be blended away as the 100 year old 0.15ha site yields only around 600kg of grapes. Thankfully this year they were able to bottle it again and we can see where the intensity of low yielding inland fruit meets that soulful expression from Alberto and Silvia. Rich yellow peach and flinty minerality on the nose, tightly wrapped by that 400L barrel. The particular site has a honeysuckle and floral aroma that is persistent year o
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La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva 2019
No 2018 was produced, so after the 2017 I tasted last year, we jumped to the 2019 Viña Ardanza Reserva, produced with a blend of 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha. It fermented destemmed in stainless steel and aged in American oak barrels, 36 months for the Tempranillo and 30 months for Garnacha, and was blended before bottling. 2019 is a very good year for them, a small crop of powerful and concentrated wines when they produced all their brands, an exception. This is spicy, structured, balanced
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