Luis Anxo Rodriguez Vazquez - A Teixa Blanco Ribeiro 2016
A View from the Cellar: 94 Points
A Teixa is a single vineyard bottling from Señor Rodríguez, planted on crumbling granite and primarily planted to Treixadura, but with a bit of Godello and Albariño included in the blend here. This bottling is also fermented with indigenous yeasts, but this time in a large old foudre, where it also spends its elevage of one year prior to bottling. It is also given an additional year of aging in the cellars in bottle prior to release. The 2016 A Teixa Branco delivers a superb aromatic constellation of pear, bread fruit, a touch of green olive, complex minerality, dried flowers, gentle notes of beeswax, wild fennel and just a whisper of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nicely plush on the attack, with a fine core, excellent girdle of acidity, lovely balance and grip and a long, complex and very elegant and well-balanced finish. Even at four years of age, this is still a young wine and it will be decidedly more complex with further bottle age. Great juice. (Drink between 2022-2040)
Price: $39.99
In Mixed Case: $33.99
