2024 | Rafael Palacios As Sortes Val do Bibei Godello | Valdeorras Hofstatter Youthful red-fruit flavors are hedonistic

Youthful red-fruit flavors are hedonistic already but this subtly spiced Pinot Noir is perfumed by hints of forest floor and wild herb that should gain depth with time

a homage to the old ranches like Bien Nacido and Ontiveros which still demarcate the Santa Maria Valley

floral aromtics foreground red cherry

but it has the depth and underlying structure to also age very nicely for fifteen or twenty years

A rosato from the Nebbiolo biotype 'Rosé

2024 | Rafael Palacios As Sortes Val do Bibei Godello | Valdeorras Hofstatter Youthful red-fruit flavors are hedonisticA new release, the 2024 As Sortes Val Do Bibei offers modest, subdued aromatics of dried herb and wet stone. Theres tension and minerality from the high altitude and northern exposure of the Godello vines, not to mention the age of the vines, the oldest in the producers book. A precise, laser focused wine of integrated acidity that persists throughout the medium bodied palate, the flavors angle around citrus, apple, and chestnut, with so much