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Chánselus Castes Brancas 2021

Chánselus Castes Brancas

2021
97
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/ 0.75 L btl

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Spec sheet

TypeWhite wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti13.0%

The wine

Wines like this Cháns-e-lus Castes Brancas are ones which will put the prestige of the Ribeiro denomination firmly on track. A wine which allows the terrain and nature full expression. Bernardo Estévez, its creator, fuses biodynamic principles with the natural farming methods advanced by Fukuoka, a Japanese advocator of maximum observation with minimum intervention. This is a wine to restore and elevate local varieties overlooked because of their poor yields, yet which express better than any the region’s blessings.

What does this wine taste like?

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Straw yellow / Clean / Bright
Bouquet
Higly aromatic / Fennel / Fruit aromas / White fruit / Floral scents / White flowers
Mouth
Expressive / Creamy / Vibrant / Full / Long / Spicy notes / Mineral notes

Drinking and storing

Serve between 8ºC and 10ºC

Food pairing

Creamy cheeses / Seafood / White meats

Ratings and awards

202197 PK
201996 PK
201695 PK
201492 PK
201291 PK
PK: Parker

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

In 2020, he didn't do white or red, he only did a mixture of white and red grapes; and in 2021, he came back with the 2021 Cháns e Lus Castes Brancas, from a cool year with almost no summer. It has a profile of a lighter wine, fresher with less alcohol (12.3%). Slow ripening on the grapes kept good acidity, and the development of flavors and influence from the soils are noticeable. He compared 2021 to 2016, a year with a similar climate (also 2009). 2019 was the last year with good volume, but he only produced one wine in 2021, this one, for a total of 4,000 bottles. The wine is aromatic, expressive, pure, crystalline and with a sense of harmony and balance, and it's subtle and with very good persistence and salinity, with less volume, more ethereal. It made me think of a good vintage of the Savagnin from Kenjiro Kagami, with notes of tangerine peel and wet stones, sapid, long and saline, a wine of purity. It's an amazing Ribeiro with expression of the soils, which is a lot clearer in cooler years. Bravo! It was bottled in January 2023.

— Luis Gutiérrez (16/11/2023)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2021 - 97 PARKER

Customer reviews

4.8/5
4 reviews
Vintage:

Winemaking

Vinification materialWood
Ageing period9 months
Type of woodFrench oak
Clarification and filtrationNot clarified

Vineyards

O Curro, Os Casas, Firvidelas, O Fexaco

Vine ageBetween 15 and 95 years
SoilGranit / Clay