Allende Blanco 2020

Allende Blanco is a wine of contrasts, of surprises, pleasant ones, and an ideal white for getting to know the great potential of the Rioja's Viura variety and being delighted with it. The contrasts will become apparent when you compare the nose and palate. And the great surprise, or the second one, comes through on the palate. It's impressive, a white recalling some of those superb Chardonnays from Burgundy but with all the character of a true Rioja: maturity, tension and saline profundity, like some of the classics.  A white that few can compare to, genuinely classic, precisely modern. The Allende Blanco is almost a single varietal Viura and will ultimately become one in time. It has a mere 5% Malvasía from some vines planted among the Viura, but which Miguel Ángel intends to select and discard over time since, even though it's a variety that imparts aromas when the wine is young, it's quick to oxidise. We will follow the development of this white with great attention.