San Román Malvasía 2023

The white 2023 Malvasía, which is the grape also known as Doña Blanca elsewhere, comes from a year with abundant winter rain, low temperatures and even snow. The summer was ideal, and the harvest of the white grapes started on August 23, delivering a wine with tension and a salty twist. The nose has notes of dry herbs and even a nutty twist (could it have some flor?). It has great aromatic complexity and a seamless palate that's velvety and balanced, with fine minerality and a very tasty finish. It has contained ripeness, 13.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.2, denoting very good freshness. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in 500-liter barrels, where it matured with the lees for 10 months. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2024. (Luis Gutiérrez)