In the glass
Aroma: lemon, white peach, almond, fennel, mineral
Palate: citrus, stone fruit, creamy texture, saline
A barrel-fermented Viura in a fresh, mineral style: citrus and almond over a saline frame, a refined modern white Rioja.
What it pairs with
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Bacalao al pil pil
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Salt cod meets the white's saline, mineral citrus. -
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
Valenciso Blanco is the boutique's barrel-fermented Viura, a later addition to the single-Reserva house.
- 2012 — Valenciso Blanco introduced
Facts
- Producer
- Valenciso
- Grapes
- Viura (100%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Fermented and aged in French oak with lees work
- ABV
- 13.0%
- Price
- EUR 20 to 35 at retail
- Drinking window
- 3 to 12 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2012
Scores
- Tim Atkin 91 (2019 vintage, reviewed 2022)