In the glass
Aroma: white peach, citrus, beeswax, toast, mineral
Palate: stone fruit, citrus, creamy texture, saline
A barrel-fermented old-vine Viura: textured, savoury and mineral, a serious white from the premium project.
What it pairs with
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Bacalao al pil pil
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Salt cod meets the white's creamy texture. -
Roast hake
Oven hake handles the barrel-fermented depth. -
Txangurro al horno
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Baked spider crab lifts the wine's citrus savour.
History
Amaren Blanco is a barrel-fermented old-vine Viura.
- 2004 — Amaren Blanco introduced
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Amaren
- Grapes
- Viura (100%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Fermented and aged in French oak with lees stirring
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- EUR 22 to 35 at retail
- Drinking window
- 4 to 15 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2004
Scores
- Tim Atkin 91 (2019 vintage, reviewed 2022)