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Alberto Nanclares Crisopa 2021

£30.10 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / North Ireland

Bodegas Nanclares Prieto
Vino de España

Parker Points: 94
Peñin Points:  

£30.10 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / North Ireland

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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The skin-contact, orange Albariño 2021 Crisopa, sold without appellation of origin, was produced with grapes from Finca Casal (it used to come from the same vineyard as Soverribas), a change they did in 2020. It was foot trodden and fermented with the skins for around one month and put in a 500-liter French oak barrel. The result is different every vintage, and in 2021, it has only 11% alcohol, notes of peach and yellow fruit, with a light to medium-bodied palate and contained volatile acidity, hints of skins and very fine tannins. This is a little lighter and more civilized, with only 11% alcohol, which is the character of the cooler 2021.

Features

Type of wine

Barrel Aged White

Pairings

Blue Cheese, Stew and hotpots

Style

Orange Wines

Occasions

Dinner with Friends

Winery

Bodegas Nanclares Prieto

Size

75 cl.

Country

Spain

Region

Galicia

Appellation

Vino de España

Alcohol

12.0%

Grapes

Albariño

Serving

Between 8ºC and 10ºC

Winemaking

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and skins for 20 days. Aged for 3 months in used 500-litre French oak barrels. Aged on lees in stainless steel tanks for 11 months before bottling. Bottled unfined.

Description

An Atlantic breeze blows from the Nanclares y Prieto vineyard , where the dream of Alberto Nanclares Prieto and Silvia Prieto germinated among sand and granite. Born from the conviction that the earth holds the truth of wine, they decided to create Nanclares y Prieto Crisopa, an Albariño that would be a faithful mirror of the Galician landscape. It all began on the slopes of Sisán and Castrelo, with old vines - 59 and 40 years old respectively - trained on pergolas on sandy loam soils with a granite base. There they saw the possibility of a wine without artifice, guided only by instinct, time and minimal intervention. They opted for an ancestral winemaking process, leaving behind commercial formulas in search of a raw, honest and deeply Atlantic expression.

Winemaking

Harvesting, always by hand, begins the process. The grapes that give life to Nanclares Prieto Crisopa are trodden by foot and fermented with skins and stems for 21 days, as was done in the olden days. Then, the wine rests in used French oak barrels on its thick lees for 11 months, with bâtonnage only in the first month. No fining or filtering: it is bottled as is, and rests for a further 9 months before being released into the world. This slow and respectful winemaking process allows Nanclares Prieto Crisopa to speak from the subsoil: stone, salt, skin and wind.

Flavour

Nanclares Prieto Crisopa does not seek to please, but to provoke. The first impact is saline, marine, with echoes of wet shell and iodine. It is followed by tense layers of citrus peel -lime, bitter mandarin, grapefruit peel- over a lively, direct structure. In the background, restrained fruit: white peach, apricot skin, nothing exuberant. The lees ageing adds volume without detracting from the tension; the ageing in used oak leaves little trace beyond a delicate texture. There is something raw and profoundly authentic about this wine: it reminds one of the mist at dawn in the Rías Baixas, of saltpetre on the skin after a day at sea. Persistent, vertical, slightly tannic and full of energy. An extreme and reflective Albariño, ideal for those who seek mineral truth in every sip.

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