2019 Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Gorvia Blanco

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Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The smoky and leesy 2019 Gorvia Blanco is a single-vineyard white from a classified vineyard, the first one he planted 38 years ago with trellises and later transformed to goblet. It's one hectare on a slope by the Monterrei Castle on decomposed and complex slate soils, mostly Dona Blanca with 5% Treixadura and Verdello Antiguo. It fermented in a 1,500-liter foudre and a 500-liter barrel, all used and neutral, where the wine is kept with lees for one year, then blended and put in stainless steel for one more year. It feels young and undeveloped; it's still pale and primary, with notes of herbs and fennel, crushed stones and a balanced palate with precision, delineation and purity and with a very tasty finish. The variety is considered quite neutral but does reflect the character of the place quite faithfully ... at least when worked like this! Bravo! 2,500 numbered bottled were filled in November 2021.

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Luis Gutierrez - Vinous

The 2019 Blanco Gorvia is 95% Doña Blanca with Verdello Antiguo and Treixadura from Monterrei. From a warm site with cool clay soils, it is pale yellow-green in hue with apple, cucumber, basil, and herb notes. Reductive and slightly ferrous, the 2019 offers a broad yet fresh palate with a creamy texture. It is savory and rich.