Decanter: 95 Punkte
"Sweet cherries with dried plums and incense and ash. Lovely clarity and focus on the palate, this has a lifted frame with savoury edged balsamic strawberries and wet stones. Clearly very mineral. Mouthwatering acidity gives the lift with so much salty salinity around. Sea breeze. A lovely effortless take, so easy to drink and like. Ends crisp with salty stones in the mouth. Perfectly balanced and interesting. 3.7-hectare vineyard. Owner and winemaker Fernando González Riveiro." - Georgina Hindle (07/2025)
The Drinks Business: 95 Punkte
"(Ribeira Sacro DO; a blend of Mencia, Brancellao, Merenzau, Caiño and Sousón, with no Garnacha Tintorera this year as in 2020; foot-trodden and 100 per cent whole bunch fermented in a single troncoconic oak vat with indigenous yeasts; matured in 225-liter barrels and 2,000-litre foudres for 24 months; 13% alcohol; tasted twice, first at the Joanne press tasting and then in Paris from a sample sent by the property). Like its sister wine Cornamús, this comes from two separate vineyards, both steeply-sloping and terraced at 200 and 600 metres. Smokey. Dark plump berry fruits. Wild plums, Mirabelle and goji berries. Wild garrigue herbs. The tannins are soft and delicate and that gives this a lovely quite sensuous velvety texture in the mouth. It simply glides over the palate. Very classy and elegant. Beautifully refined and very well managed." - Colin Hay (09/2025)
