O Gran Meín Lustro 2019

2019 / 93 puntos

They kept some 4,000 bottles of their top white wine and released it five years after the harvest. The 2019 O Gran Mein Branco Lustro ("lustro" is the Spanish word for a period of five years) has a pretty advanced nose, with honeyed and caramel notes and hints of toasted cereals, and it has a polished palate with a bitter touch in the finish. It feels quite ready. Perhaps the warm year is evolving a little faster than anticipated. The regular O Gran Mein Branco from 2023 won't be released until 2029, because that wine will always be released six years after the harvest as Lustro. They will also release limited quantities of 2021 and 2022 but will skip 2020 as Lustro. It's been in bottle since the 2020 autumn.