Description

L'Albilla est un des cépages les plus anciens que l'on connaisse dans l'appellation Manchuela. Des mots mêmes de Luis Gutiérrez dans The Wine Advocate , le millésime 2018 de Reto est sans doute « un des vins blancs méditerranéens les plus frais d'Espagne ». De profil austère et minéral, il déploie l'étincelle des sols granitiques.

Fiche technique

Type de vin
White Fermented in Barrels
Millésime
2018
Alcool
12.5% vol.
Cépage
100% Albilla
Origine
Manchuela

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

I also tasted the white 2018 Reto, from a cooler year than 2017 that resulted in slightly lower alcohol and higher acidity. This is a vintage that represents the style of white they aim for—fresh, complex and mineral, with an austere profile and integrated oak. It's still a baby and shows more primary notes of freshly cut grass and aromatic herbs, but the core is the striking minerality and the spark of the granite soils. This has a cool-climate profile, with marked acidity, that should keep the wine alive in bottle for a good 5 years or more. It's at a very similar quality level as the 2017 I tasted next to it...perhaps a little better! One of the freshest Mediterranean whites from Spain. The price is simply unbelievable. And I'm sure it's going to be incredibly long lived, especially after I tasted the 2011. 15,000 bottles were filled in March 2019.