Curii 'Una Noche Y Un Dia' Alicante 2020

Curii 'Una Noche Y Un Dia' Alicante 2020Press 4 Mix Press 4 Red February 2023 Direct Press Selection Alicante, in the Valencia region of Spain, has been known more for a lot of bulk and spoofulated wines over the past 30 years or so. The hot sun off the Mediterranean coast certainly helps if you want to make some beefy, powerful, 'fruit bombs.' Violeta Gutirrez de la Vega and Alberto Redrado have other ideas, working organically, picking early to preserve natural acidity, and adding little

harvested from centenarian ungrafted vines

This is not your smoldering bonfire monster a la Laphroaig but a slow-burn: haunting

Nothing short of breathtaking

to make a field blend from a black slate soil vineyard near the Portuguese border at 2600 ft

stoney mineral tone

a direct result of the high altitude these 100+ year old vineyards are planted at (some around 600 meters above sea level) and the slow

Definitely great for root vegetables and salty snacks

In humble fashion

Named for the Portugese word for 'texture

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nearly extinct

One of the most northernly appellations in the Alto Piemonte