Horizonte de Exopto Blanco 2018

Tom Puyaubert is a big fan of the cooler 2018 vintage, especially for white wines, and you can see why when you taste this blend of Viura, 10% Malvasía and 5% Moscatel, Palomino, Torrontés and Garnacha Blanca. Leesy, waxy and lightly wooded, it has notes of thatch and fennel, a drizzle of honey and wonderful freshness and minerality. 2020-24
 

The 2019 Horizonte de Exopto Blanco, the village white from Ábalos, has an elegant and captivating nose, complex, elegant and nuanced. It's a blend of 80% Viura, 10% Garnacha Blanca and 10% Malvasía Riojana co-fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured for one year in used 225-liter barrels (20% of the volume), concrete eggs (20%) and the majority in a 4,000-liter French oak foudre, the novelty this vintage, where the fermentations finished. The palate is beautifully textured and fresh, with only 12.5% alcohol and very good acidity, clean, precise and very tasty, with a salty finish. 8,000 bottles were filled in September 2020. Unfortunately, I never tasted the 2018... - Luis Gutiérrez.