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The Blanca de Guarda bottling from Bodegas Arrocal is made from the Albillo Mayor grape, with the wine aged for one year in French oak barrels during its élevage. The 2021 version comes in at an even thirteen percent octane and delivers a classy and refined bouquet of ripe pear, clementine, a nice touch of beeswax, a fine base of salty soil, gentle notes of hazelnut, lemon peel, vanillin oak and a musky floral topnote. On the palate the wine is bright, focused and full-bodied, with fine depth in the mid-palate, good soil inflection and grip, a lovely framework of acidity and a long, complex and impeccably balanced finish. This is really a lovely bottle and as good an example of white wine as I have ever tasted from Ribera de Duero! 2024-2035. John Gilman; Issue 109, January – February 2024 |
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