Carrasviñas Dorado

NV / 93+ puntos

Even though they told me the bottle of the NV Carrasviñas Dorado I tasted was the February 2025 bottling, there is nothing on the front or back label to make it identifiable as such, other than an obscure and difficult-to-read lot code printed over some writing. I just don't understand why they don't print this information clearly readable and make it possible for people to know what wine they are drinking and decide if they want a fresh bottle or one with more time in the bottle. Anyway, I'll keep insisting, because I think it's worth it to see how the creamy and nutty golden wine matures in bottle. It's a blend of 65% Verdejo and 35% Palomino with 15% alcohol; it was picked ripe and never fortified and has a pH of 3.2 and six grams of acidity. It aged in glass demijohn in an oxidative way, and it also had a short biological phase with flor, making it akin to a young-ish Amontillado. The wine is polished by two years in used 300-liter barrels. 2,000 bottles in this lot.