Soalheiro Granit Mineral Selection Monção e Melgaço Alvarinho 2018

Luís Cerdeira selects the fruit for this wine from vines growing above 1,300 feet in altitude, where the soil is poor in nutrients and the vines sustain high acidity in their grapes. He allows the fermentation to run warmer than in his other alvarinhos, pointing up the granitic minerality in the grapes as it ages on the fine lees. It’s a bright wine with a smoky, dark mineral structure that keeps it brisk, the flavors and scents layering cider apple, lavender and green almond. “A sea urchin wine,” said W&S Tastings Editor Rachel DelRocco Terrazas. Wine & Spirits Magazine

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