Somos Biodynamic Albarino 2024

$35.00

Such a gorgeous wine with grapefruit, pear, yellow fruits, preserved lime, lemon, pink lady apple, jasmine and honey. Wonderfully fully flavoured and succulent, with texture and citrus drive focusing and lengthening the palate. All of the Somos wine’s are for drinking upon release, and the prices are eye wateringly cheap, but I would love to see this in 5 years and more. Fantastic and we are in bargain territory here. Norris at Waters Wine Co

 

Biodynamic fruit from the Gemtree vineyard, aged in a sandstone amphora for five months. There seems to be a little more restraint, purity perhaps, in the recent Somos wines (now solely Mauricio Ruiz Cantú’s project). That’s not at the cost of detail or of intrigue. Green apple, corella pear, pink grapefruit, fresh mint, green almond, sea spray, the palate energetic, driven by acidity and sheathed in an uber-fine netting of citrus-pith grip, a hint of positive limey bitterness enhancing. It’s light of weight, rippling with flavour and structured beautifully for both food and those just into sapid refreshment. Lovely. 94 Points, Halliday Wine Companion

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Locals of McLaren Vale, Jonny Cook and Kyle Egel met at high school, forming a vinous bond that has morphed into Saltfleet. The fruit’s local too, sourced from some of the finest sites in the region. The wines are handled minimally and gently, made in such tiny quantities (just a single barrel for most of the reds), the fruit has to be perfect and the winemaking on point. And so it is.

These are classically styled wines, a homage to McLaren Vale and a nod to the future with newer varietals to the region such as Fiano, Chenin Blanc and Touriga Nacional among the range. Richly fruited, succulent, vibrant, curvaceous and with great movement, Saltfleet are only a few vintages in and already making great wines with humble resources. No doubt about it, a star or two is born.

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