Nortico Alvarinho 2025 CS20230713 Palate: Fresh

Palate: Fresh

giving texture and depth you don't usually find at this price point

and leave the wine on its lees for six to eight months

lemon verbena

Emmanuelle Verset honors her father Alain's legacy of organic viticulture and spontaneous fermentation while carving her own path

Nortico Alvarinho 2025 CS20230713 Palate: FreshCross the Minho river south from Spain's Ras Baixas and Albario becomes Alvarinho, the same grape with a different passport, and in Mono and Melgao it finds arguably its finest address. The vines grow in granite and schist, far enough inland to ripen properly while cool nights keep the wine electric. Nortico skips the injected CO2 that gives so much of the region's white wine its spritzy fizz, and what's left is a fuller, more serious bottle with real