Pormenor Branco Reserva 2021 (750ml)
Pormenor Vinhos crafts this Reserva Branco from 80-year-old Rabigato vines grown at high elevations in Portugal's Douro region. The wine ferments and ages on the lees for 10 months in used French oak barrels with no temperature control, delivering smoky grapefruit and wet stone flavors with bright acidity. This complex white offers the depth of white Burgundy at a fraction of the price.
Jancis Robinson: 17 Points
Even more complex than the 2022 Reserva thanks to the extra year in bottle: not just the spicy/creamy barrel and lees-ageing effect but also a toasty and cedary aroma of bottle age, and still showing plenty of fruit – like smoky grapefruit. You can see that this wine needed bottle age to blossom. Extremely high acidity is balanced by the rich flavour and almost chewy texture – and yet light on its feet thanks to the modest alcohol. Magical contrasts. Long, deep and mouth-watering with sour-fresh intensity.
