Manda Huevos Blanco Carramainas 2020
Fiche technique
Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
A blend of old-vine Macabeo and 50% younger-vine Garnacha Blanca, the 2020 Manda Huevos Blanco Carramainas is from a warmer vintage than the 2021, which I tasted next to it. They harvest by acidity, not by alcohol, and curiously enough, the 2020 is slightly lower in alcohol than the 2021; it was harvested 10 days earlier. This has 13% alcohol, and curiously enough, it's more austere and closed on the nose, perhaps with more effect of the lees. 2,916 bottles. It was bottled in March 2022.
Creamy nose with fine oak spices showing praline, vanilla and butterscotch to the lemon custard and pastry. A hint of crushed stones, too. Fresh, dry and creamy on the palate with a full body and good intensity of flavors. Long yet subtle finish. Pretty serious macabeo from Calatayud. Drink now, but can hold for a few years, too.
Norrel Robertson, el Escocés Volante, llegó a Calatayud hace más de diez años buscando un lugar bien comunicado que le permitiese continuar su labor de asesor enológico en diferentes proyectos vitícolas en España y el sur de Francia.
Un macabro sorprendente con mucha personalidad, sobre todo en el final. Aunque soy de probar cosas nuevas con este vino repetiré.