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(2023) Make no mistake, the co-op of Monção is a superb wine producer, and a leader for the whole Vinho Verde region. This wine, made from Alvarinho, echoes the Albariños of Galica, just across the border. The nose is exotically fruity, herby and lemony, with an ozone breeziness. It bursts onto the palate, so much zesty, pure citrus freshness, a tangy but tropical hint of mango, then a thrillingly bright. Long finish. Terrific. Watch the video for more information and food matching ideas.
(2023) With a beautiful, soft wax-sealed presentation, Natur is Covela’s organic certified, no added sulphur wine. Fermented and aged in old oak barrels, only 1600 bottles were made. There's a hintbof spritz and interesting Bay leaf character, herby and melon skin aromas, moving into florals. In the mouth citrus dominates, a lightly waxy character too, with apple skin grippiness. Good acidity, in an intriguing and ambitious take on single varietal Vinho Verde.
(2012) Terrific nose, so fresh, herby, floral and dry but attractively bright. Lemon peel and tangerine tang. Great palate: crunchy, vibrant, searingly peppy and tangy, with so much zest and vitality. Flavour is packed in here, though there is a bit of gunflint reduction that you can taste in the finish.
(2012) This piles on the depth and intensity of fruit and aroma. Honey and obvious ripeness here, hinting at tropical. More luscious fruit. Some vergetal notes add to the complexity of the palate, but so much flavour, so much broad, green-bean tinged, fat lemnony fruit and huge natural concentration and freshness.
(2012) This has a lift of honey and flowers, really attractive, hinting at the exotic, but not overblown. Beautiful palate: pristine, ripe, sweet-edged fruit but such lime and lemon intensity and freshness. A touch of vanilla, but all about the fruit.
(2011) (Tasted Feb 2011) Much more nutty but closed aromatics, with a little juicy lemon but the palate has a gentleness and a terrifically clean, refined crab apple and lemon pith freshness and grip. It has a beautiful length and very good concentration without even a hint of anything clumsy.
(2011) The top level white, made from Alvarinho and Malvasia Fina. "A great Alvarinho from outside the Monçao area," says João, referring jokingly to the move by producers around the town of Monçao to make it 'Alvarinho central'. The winemaking is again overseen by Anselmo Mendes here. Delicately nutty notes, and the fruit is very fresh and crunchy: white fruit, but really the mineral notes dominate this wine. Lots of lemon and, silky, smooth, waxy apple fruit, with a really Riesling-like quality, with a huge core of concentrated lime acidity.
(2011) Alvarinho. Very rich, ripe quality, notes of buttered cabbage and quite exotic fruit, but all with a fine, nervy twist of dill-like herbs and minerals. The palate has a slightly oxidised, bruised fruit quality that I find Chenin-like, with lots of layered personality and a big, dry, phenolic but balanced finish. Only 500 cases made.
(2011) Alvarinho. A singular take on Vinho Verde from Galician winemaker Marcial Dorado. It spends one year in tank with lees, and qualifies as a 'Natural Wine', organically farmed, very low levels of sulphur and all natural yeasts. Powerful, leesy, oxidative nose showing lots of stony minerality. This is intense, with concentrated green apple fruit, lots of structure and acidity gripping the finish.
(2010) Aged on lees for one year with battonage, two years in total before release. "We use neutral yeasts to achieve primary fruit aromas - not ferment aromas." Complex, creamy nose with lime and green fruit, gently figgy notes. Palate is rich and complex, with lots of grip and grapefruity punch. Tangy, layered, with lots of flavour and textural complexity. Imported by Castas.
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