Bastarda, Fedellos do Couto, Ribeira Sacra, Spain 2023
Bastarda, Fedellos do Couto, Ribeira Sacra, Spain 2023
Weighing in at a bantamweight 12% alcohol, this is a light-framed wine that your grandma would probably say needs a good meal. Light in colour and body, it's made from the brilliantly named Bastarda grape (aka Trousseau in France) and gleams like a pale ruby in your glass. It's delicately flavoured, showing juicy red berries and sour red cherries cut with redcurrant and cranberry and the influence of the time that it spent in oak is conspicuous by its absence. Despite the filigree tannins, it's a wine that will age counter-intuitively well, just as Trousseau does in the Jura. If you like northern hemisphere Pinot Noir, taken right to the edge of ripeness, then this is a wine you will really appreciate. 12% alc. Drink now-2036.
Organic
Press review:
The Wine Advocate: "It's serious, elegant and nuanced, with faint floral notes, hints of blood orange peel and white pepper. They are hoping to plant some more of the variety, because it works very well in sandy and granite soils. It's delicate, elegant and fine-boned, with a vibrant mouthfeel and effervescent acidity and the salinity from the granite soils. Delicious. Drink now-2031." 96 points