Picarana 2017

With up to one degree more alcohol than the 2016, the 2017 Picarana comes from a warmer and more Mediterranean year with lower yields, but as it often happens with the Albillo grape, it feels fresher than in the warmer years! This is expressive and very varietal, with marked bitterness in the finish, strong aromatics with a mixture of herbal and citrus characters. This was the earliest harvest in their history and could have picked the grapes in July, but they waited until September. Lovely. 12,000 bottles were produced and bottled in May 2018. - Luis Gutiérrez.