2024 Nanclares y Prieto 'Tempus Vivendi' Albarino Rias Baixas, Spain Idlewild including Monvigliero

including Monvigliero

We picked the grapes for the Grape + Peach wine in early August

the terroir is a blend of both schist and pudding sandstone and is almost entirely sound facing over the Layon river

The nose is tight and clean

2024 Nanclares y Prieto 'Tempus Vivendi' Albarino Rias Baixas, Spain Idlewild including Monvigliero100% Albario from a number of plots in and around Sanxenxo. The vines are 25 45 years old, and the plots are largely south and west facing and planted on sandy granite and clay. The grapes were harvested by hand, sorted, and gently pressed without destemming in whole bunches using a pneumatic press. The juice ferments with its native yeasts in stainless steel tank, then rests on the lees for 7 months in the same vessel, with weekly batonnage for the