2013 Picarana

The 2013 Picarana is pure Albillo from six different plots in San Martín de Valdeiglesias fermented in used barriques and foudres where the wine ages for eight months and represents their village white. Even though this was a cold and rainy vintage, the wine is fruitier and a little more tropical. It's weird how Albillo shows fresher in warmer, shorter-cycled years and more opulent in cooler ones when the cycle is longer and the ripeness gets higher and acidity drops. The palate is quite straight and sharp, longer than it is fatter, showing good acidity and freshness highlighted by more subtle flavors.

The 2013 Picarana is pure Albillo from six different plots in San Martín de Valdeiglesias fermented in used barriques and foudres where the wine ages for eight months and represents their village white. Even though this was a cold and rainy vintage, the wine is fruitier and a little more tropical. It's weird how Albillo shows fresher in warmer, shorter-cycled years and more opulent in cooler ones when the cycle is longer and the ripeness gets higher and acidity drops. The palate is quite straight and sharp, longer than it is fatter, showing good acidity and freshness highlighted by more subtle flavors. ||Marañones has different vineyards totaling 28 hectares in the village of San Martín de Valdeiglesias, in the province of Madrid, and therefore the wines have the appellation Vinos de Madrid, but have a lot more in common with other wines from the Gredos Mountains than with those from other subzones of the Madrid DO, which are much warmer and have different soils and less altitude. The young Fernando García is a true vigneron. He produces a full range of wines (two whites and four reds) since 2008. All wines are fermented with their own yeasts, using a gentle vinification, often with part of the stems, and always using neutral (big-volume and used) oak. eRobertParker.com.October, 2014