Borja Perez "Artifice" Listán Blanco - 2020

Name: Borja Perez "Artifice" Listán Blanco
Brand: Borja Perez
SKU: 42598
Price: 51.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 42598 1.5L

100% Listán Blanco (called Palomino in the region of Jerez) from old vines. The wine was fermented and aged for 7 months (on lees) in 500 liter French barrels. Minimal sulphur was added at bottling. The volcanic soils lends a fine mineral aspect to this refreshing white wine.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

Spain

Region

Canary Islands

Producer

Borja Perez

Grape Variety

Listan Blanco

Production Methods

Organic

Certified Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard. Certified in the country of origin.

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Staff Pick Notes

What a great white with a mineral, saline bite to it. Pointedly dry and very round on the palate. Listán Blanco isn't common outside of the Canary Islands. It's another name for Palomino Fino, one of the most common grapes used to make sherry. You'll definitely pick up the similarities this wine has with a Manzanilla or Fino. The nose has cactus fruit, kumquat, and pine. Hints of this stay on the palate, but it's dominated by this gorgeous salinity with dried lemons, nuts, and sea salt. It's a reminder that this wine is from the western Atlantic coast of Tenerife. Specifically from the Ycoden-Daute-Isora region. Interest in wine from the Canary Islands has been growing, but Borja Perez is still a small production. Saline and thirst quenching, this is the ultimate tapas wine.

- TD

Glossary

Spain

Central to the Spanish winemaking philosophy is the belief that wine should be released only when it is ready to be consumed, and not a moment before. Spanish wine law focuses squarely on this issue: the terms Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva are highly regulated indicators of the amount of time a wine has aged prior to its release. In Rioja, Navarra, and the Ribera del Duero (which have the most stringent requirements) red Crianzas must be aged a minimum of two years; Reservas, at least three...

Blanco

White tequila, an official type (tipo) for tequila bottled fresh from the still, or allowed to rest in stainless steel tanks for up to sixty days before bottling. It is never aged in wooden barrels. Also known as plata, plato, and silver tequila. Usually the most robust, strong-flavoured of the tequila types.