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Rafael Palacios Sorte O Soro 2014 750ml

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750ml
country
Spain
region
Galicia
appellation
Valdeorras
WA
97
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97
Rated 97 by Wine Advocate
I was really looking forward to tasting the 2014 Sorte O Soro, a wine that had really impressed me in the only two previous vintages, 2011 and 2009. The plot called Sorte O Soro was planted with Godello grapes 41 years ago on a southwest-facing plot at 720 meters altitude in the Bibei Valley, in the Santa Cruz village belonging to O Bolo in Valdeorras. The soils are granite based, with fine sand, quartz and schist elements, and produce very elegant wines with a rare combination of high acidity and perfect ripening. In this case the must fermented in new 500-liter French oak barrels where the wine matured in contact with the fine lees for seven months. There is no trace of oak here, there is great elegance, and has marked aromas of tangerine peel and magnolia flowers, very subtle and elegant with subdued minerality. There is superb elegance in the palate too, gobsmacking acidity and astonishing balance; it is ethereal but at the same time pungent, the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove, with the electric minerality of granite. This has world class elegance, one of the best whites produced in Spain. If I was impressed by the other vintages, this 2014 is even better. Bravo! 2,800 bottles were filled in June 2015.
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Rafael Palacios Sorte O Soro 2014 750ml

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Region: Galicia

Galicia, in northern Spain, was once a prosperous and highly popular wine producing region. Despite the strong influence and often bad weather brought by the Atlantic Ocean, the vintners of Galicia knew how to make the most of the grape varietals which thrived in their vineyards, and were renowned for producing excellent, characterful wines full of flavor and beautiful aromatic qualities. However, the economic collapse which occurred in Galicia in the 19th century all but destroyed the region's wine industry and reputation, and it looked as though the region would never recover. Thankfully for lovers of Spanish wines, plenty of money and effort was spent in rebuilding the Galician wine industry over the past few decades, and today, more and more wineries are once again making their distinctive single variety and blended white and red wines, and finding new fans across the globe.
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Country: Spain

For over two thousand years, Spain has been responsible for much of Europe's wine production, making the very best of native grape varietals, and more recently experimenting with and perfecting wines made from imported grapes. Of course, the region of La Rioja is renowned world-wide for the quality and characteristics of its wines, which benefit greatly from the warm, dry continental climate of the area, and the fertile soils of the Ebro river basin. However, there is far more to Spanish produce than the complex, aromatic and earthy red wine of this region, as a result of the vast range of wine making traditions and practices, and terrains and climatic conditions found across the country. The region Castilla y Leon produces some of Europe's finest white wines, and the sparkling wines of Cava and the sherries of Jerez are firm favorites for wine lovers around the world.