There seems to be an eclectic gathering in this glass, a party with white fruit aromas celebrating together with spices, meaty scents and earth tones, all enjoying the diversity. While the texture is soft, a marked acidity highlights the wine’s earthier flavors, drawing out a charming, funky side. Recommended for adventurous drinkers, this is a 95-year-old mixed planting of albillo, a local variety, together with godello, moscatel, palomino, malvasia and other, as yet unidentified, vines at a parcel in Maderal, a village in Toro.
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Alvar De Dios Vaguera 2016 750ml
Rated 92 by Wine & Spirits
There seems to be an eclectic gathering in this glass, a party with white fruit aromas celebrating together with spices, meaty scents and earth tones, all enjoying the diversity. While the texture is soft, a marked acidity highlights the wine’s earthier flavors, drawing out a charming, funky side. Recommended for adventurous drinkers, this is a 95-year-old mixed planting of albillo, a local variety, together with godello, moscatel, palomino, malvasia and other, as yet unidentified, vines at a parcel in Maderal, a village in Toro.
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Rated 91 by Wine Advocate
The white 2016 Vaguera is pure Dona Blanca from a north-facing plot planted at 950 meters in altitude, surrounded by forest on red clay. It has an expressive and open nose of peach, apricot and cantaloupe melon; it’s really exuberant, aromatic and showy, a completely different expression than the other Dona Blanca bottling he does from the Arribes del Duero zone (the Las Vidres). This fermented in barrel and then matured in foudre, concrete egg and amphorae for some 12 months. It’s both mineral and powerful, quite different from the rest of the wines here, much more exuberant. There is very good minerality on the palate that gives it a more austere twist. 1,710 bottles were filled in January 2018.