Reto Blanco - Albilla Blanco

Albilla Blanco | kalkrijke bodems | bush vines | vergist op eikenhout | krokante zuren | iets toast | super clean | zilt | toast | spanning | gave wijn voor by the glass! 

J.A. Ponce

Juan Antonio begint in 2003 een andere koers te varen. In plaats van zijn druiven te verkopen, heeft hij voor ogen om een grootse wijn van de Bobal te maken. De wijngaarden zijn gelegen rondom de stad Cuenca, tussen Madrid en Valencia in. Na zijn natuurlijke vergisting en geen toevoegingen van zwavel krijg je een zeer bijzondere wijn. Een dieprode kleur, sappig en kruidig met een enorme diepgang. Geknipt voor voor de Nederlandse gastronomie!

Review

For the only white produced here, whose current vintage is the 2019 Reto, they want dry weather before and during the harvest, as they don't macerate the skins and do a direct pressing, so they want the grapes to be concentrated and dry. It fermented in 600-liter barrels and a 1,500-liter foudre with indigenous yeasts and was kept with lees for seven months. As I saw in other wines from 2019, this is a little more expressive than other years, more approachable and possibly easier to understand. It was harvested around the 15th of August, more normal dates than, for example, 2018, which was extremely early. It has the signature tasty and saline character of the grape, supple and long, still austere and sharp, especially given the zone and the year. 15,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2020.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the winery, the Ponce family has released from the excellent 2018 vintage a new top of the range that carries their surname. The family owns 50 hectares in the villages of Iniesta, Villanueva de la Jara, Villamalea and Mahora, from which they produce 120,000 bottles of some of the best wines from Manchuela. 2018 is an exceptional vintage, which Juan Antonio Ponce compares with 2008, 2010 or 2013, with lower alcohol and more elegant wines. 2019 is a very good year, very Mediterranean, with a warm summer and a cold spell during the harvest that perhaps produced more immediate wines than 2018, a little in the style of 2016 or 2017. Luis Gutierrez 93+/100