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Aalto, Blanco de Parcela Fuente de las Hontanillas 2021
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Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
The style of the 2021 Blanco de Parcela Fuente de las Hontanillas is as far removed from the style of the reds as possible. You'd expect a sensual, ripe, generous and oaky white à la Kistler or similar, but this is delicate, low in alcohol (12.5%), soft, young and tender with an appley nose and a light and austere palate with pungent flavors and acidity (pH 3.0 and 6.92 grams of acidity), sharp and dry. It's a blend of Verdejo and Albillo that matured in barrel for 10 months, but the oak is unnoticeable. 6,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2022.
About the Producer
The AALTO project was founded in February 1999, in the prestigious winemaking region of Ribera del Duero (Spain). The foundational aim of Mariano Garcia and Javier Zaccagnini in AALTO was to make a wine that shows a different personality, of high quality and being a faithful reflection of distinct locations, blending them at the end of the aging process to obtain balance and complexity. A few years later, in 2006, Masaveu and Nozaleda families joined AALTO, both owners of wineries in other wine regions of Spain, providing experience and stability to the project, which meant the consolidation of the winery to this day. The architecture of the winery is perfectly integrated into the environment, in a typical Ribera del Duero plateau, with a lineal and harmonic design without ostentation, and minimalistic details, elegant and comfortable.
