Given to me by PVM after our sub zero camping trip in Derbyshire. I gave him a Sicilian shiraz in return.
I fear I got the better deal. Elderflower nose. Initially the pallet gives a strong nutty flavour (at least it did on day 1, that's faded now day 3 has arrived). The fruit is complex. I can't articulate it very well but there's perhaps more elderflower, lychee? Plenty of racy citrus to follow.
Interesting, rewarding and well worth adding to the dry white repertoire. (£8 Morrisons) but is much more restrained and subtle than (and thus doesn't quite have the impact of) the last Picopul I wrote about (just 50p more expensive).
Rias Baixas is not somewhere I've considered since the 1999 era of Spanish experimentation. In my mind I'd imagined it to be located north west of Ribera de Duero but I hadn't realised just how close it is to the extreme fringes of Galicia:
...where the climate is 'Atlantic' meaning lots of rain and fog with summer temperatures 'rarely exceeding 30C'. Which makes you wonder why we can't produce more decent white wine in the UK. Perhaps the lack of available land means that we could never produce good enough quality wine at a competitive enough price for the enterprise to be worthwhile?
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