2021 Envinate Palo Blanco (750ml)

By John GilmanMay/Jun 2023, Issue #105, Round Two Of Spanish And Portuguese Wines Summer of 2023, 5/1/202393 points (Palo Blanco- Envínate (Tenerife)) Envínate’s Palo Blanco bottling is crafted from braided, one hundred year-old Listán Blanco vines that are planted at six hundred meters elevation. The grapes are destemmed, crushed and racked off of the skins briskly prior to fermentation; the wine does not undergo malolactic. It is raised in older foudres made from oak from Friuli in Italy. The 2021 version is quite reductive when first poured and takes a bit of coaxing to blossom, but once it does, the wine delivers a superb aromatic constellation of tart orange, breadfruit, white flowers, a touch of iodine, beeswax, raw almond and a superbly complex base of soil. On the palate the wine is pure, young, full-bodied and focused, with a superb core of fruit, fine soil inflection and grip, zesty acids and a long, complex and impeccably balanced finish. This could do with a year or two