2024 | Rafael Palacios As Sortes Val do Bibei Godello | Valdeorras Domaine Pfister Mid purple

Mid purple

with the hallmark Taylor’s poise and definition and the tantalising promise of pleasures still to come

It's colour is pale yellow with brilliant reflections

and lead pencil notes all emerge from the glass

Rully lies at the northern end of the Côte Chalonnaise and was once such a cool site that it became a centre for sparkling-wine production

2024 | Rafael Palacios As Sortes Val do Bibei Godello | Valdeorras Domaine Pfister Mid purpleA new release, the 2024 As Sortes Val Do Bibei offers modest, subdued aromatics of dried herb and wet stone. Theres tension and minerality from the high altitude and northern exposure of the Godello vines, not to mention the age of the vines, the oldest in the producers book. A precise, laser focused wine of integrated acidity that persists throughout the medium bodied palate, the flavors angle around citrus, apple, and chestnut, with so much