Bodega Alegre Valgañon
Las Llanas Rioja White Blend
La Rioja, Spain
See previous notes.
Crazy one off. I’m still looking for more.
This time, took to friends for lunch with a mushroom frittata. Just PnP. Oh my. Waxy, as many old Viura’s can be, but with a very interesting mid palate ( all the while I’m trying to convey this to my luncheon friends,,who don’t care). This presence there tells you to slow down and roll it around. I can’t recall exactly fruit or other impressions this time. But…without doubt, it was perfect, unctuous, waxy, with enough acidity to balance. You might think you’re drinking something old fashioned and old. @cellartracker has been hard on this wine…beats me.
Look at my previous notes.
@Thanks @Rare Wine Co.
With Bonnie, Bill, Randy.
See previous notes.
Crazy one off. I’m still looking for more.
This time, took to friends for lunch with a mushroom frittata. Just PnP. Oh my. Waxy, as many old Viura’s can be, but with a very interesting mid palate ( all the while I’m trying to convey this to my luncheon friends,,who don’t care). This presence there tells you to slow down and roll it around. I can’t recall exactly fruit or other impressions this time. But…without doubt, it was perfect, unctuous, waxy, with enough acidity to balance. You might think you’re drinking something old fashioned and old. @cellartracker has been hard on this wine…beats me.
Look at my previous notes.
@Thanks @Rare Wine Co.
With Bonnie, Bill, Randy.
Really nice weirdo : The vineyard is a field blend of Viura, Rojal, Calagraño and Garnacha Blanca. Lots of dried Apricots,peaches, lots of mineral.lil’ hint of vanilla.Almost Barley/Scotch like nose. “grown in very poor sandstone. There’s not enough fruit to put through a vertical press, so the wine ferments with skins but without stems and is pressed after 4 weeks of fermentation and maceration. One 400 litre barrel was filled and the wine aged here a while before resting in Clayber ceramic (24 months in total), and bottled unfiltered and unfined. Please decant. 530 bottles made”. Weirdo for sure. Evidently a rescued plot across from the bodega.
For a “one off” ( kinda) I think it’s a success. Especially after time in the glass it has a wonderful, viscous mouthfeel that I find in in quality Rioja Blancos. The folks on @cellartracker not so much. but then again, that might have been 5 folks.?
Thanks@rarewineco.
Really nice weirdo : The vineyard is a field blend of Viura, Rojal, Calagraño and Garnacha Blanca. Lots of dried Apricots,peaches, lots of mineral.lil’ hint of vanilla.Almost Barley/Scotch like nose. “grown in very poor sandstone. There’s not enough fruit to put through a vertical press, so the wine ferments with skins but without stems and is pressed after 4 weeks of fermentation and maceration. One 400 litre barrel was filled and the wine aged here a while before resting in Clayber ceramic (24 months in total), and bottled unfiltered and unfined. Please decant. 530 bottles made”. Weirdo for sure. Evidently a rescued plot across from the bodega.
For a “one off” ( kinda) I think it’s a success. Especially after time in the glass it has a wonderful, viscous mouthfeel that I find in in quality Rioja Blancos. The folks on @cellartracker not so much. but then again, that might have been 5 folks.?
Thanks@rarewineco.