Description / Reviews
"A fine sandy colour with a touch of green. A green-gold cereal nose carries granitic sand’s talcy-minerality. The fruit is sliced apple, nashi flesh, chickpea meal, green rice stems, with nudges of celery dust, black basil and cucumber gin. To taste, the gorgeously rounded cereal and prickly pear fruit has an enlivening sweetsour tug, thanks to a tangle of subtle green elements – tarragon, watermelon skin, mint, lime. But, unfiltered, the mouthfeel really is the thing! At first, trademark Salnes Valley acidity is prominent, along with Atlantic saline and granitic edginess – without filtration, the acidity is much less strangling, still shaping the wine, of course, but it’s like someone who is genuinely great at drawing – the pen is lightly held, weaving away confidently, without being gripped … not ‘weilded’. Unweilding acidity allows the wine to open delicately through the mouth, up into the roof and out to the sides of the mouth as it wishes, while line is constantly honoured." - Castro Martin
