In the glass
Aroma: white flower, green apple, citrus, honeysuckle
Palate: apple, gentle sweetness, citrus, fresh
The house's famous off-dry white: floral, gently sweet and fresh, a historic aperitif-style Rioja white with a loyal following.
What it pairs with
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Pintxos de autor
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The gentle sweetness tames spice and salt across a pintxo spread. -
Tarta de queso vasca
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Off-dry fruit echoes the burnt Basque cheesecake's sweetness. -
Fresh fruit and almonds
An aperitif white for nibbles before dinner.
History
Diamante is the house's historic off-dry white, one of Spain's best-known semi-sweet wines.
- 1922 — Diamante off-dry white established
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Franco-Espanolas
- Grapes
- Viura (85%), Malvasia Riojana (15%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Stainless steel, no oak
- ABV
- 11.5%
- Price
- EUR 7 to 12 at retail
- Drinking window
- 1 to 3 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1922
Scores
- Tim Atkin 86 (2021 vintage, reviewed 2022)