Dominio del Aguila Blanco 2017

This stunning white wine is made from the uniquely Ribera variety, Albillo. Sourced from a century-old, organically farmed vineyard sitting at 800m elevation, all fruit is hand-harvested, foot-trodden and whole-bunch fermented with indigenous yeasts. It is then matured on lees for 30-35 months in French oak barrels. Incredibly intense and tensile in youth, it offers up vibrant notes of citrus and orchard fruits, with incisive acidity and a distinctively smoky-saline minerality. This is an incredibly high-quality wine well worth trying if you are a fan of the more reductive/smoky styles of white Burgundy or Chardonnay.