2020 Mixtura Blanco

What an unusual wine! 50% Treixadura on sandy granite soils in Ribeiro and 50% Albariño from the zone of Melgaço in Portugal on granite and clay soils. Fermented in a second-use 2,450-liter Stockinger oak cask. After native yeast fermentation, the wine spends 12 months of aging in the same Stockinger barrels on the lees (no stirring) where it undergoes spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The wine is then racked into Italian Nico Velo ceramic eggs, where it develops for another 12 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, with minimal sulfur at bottling. 

93 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. "The 2020 Mixtura Blanco fermented in a 2,450-liter Stockinger oak cask that was first used for the 2019 wine, so the influence from the wood is subtler but it's still there. It's 50% Treixadura on sandy granite soils in Ribeiro and 50% Albariño from the zone of Melgaço in Portugal on granite and clay soils. It fermented and stayed in the foudre until it was needed for the next harvest, then transferred to concrete tulips, where it matured for one more year. It has a perfumed nose and a creamy touch, spicy and smoky but subtle and elegant, and the palate is velvety with pungent flavors, good ripeness, 13% alcohol and nice balance, still young and with good length. Clean and modern. It should develop nicely in bottle. 10,000 bottles were filled in August 2022."