The 2006 Gorvia Blanco is 100% Dona Blanca, an grape indigenous to the region. It was aged for eight months in seasoned 500-liter French oak. Light straw-colored, it delivers an alluring nose of mineral, mango, pineapple, and spring flowers that jumps from the glass. Viscous, full-flavored, and intense, this stunning effort may well evolve but, of course, it has no track record.
Quinta da Muradella is where star vigneron Raul Perez makes his A Trabe wines. Grapes from this vineyard were once used to make Grappa but now serve a more noble purpose. A mere 1.2 hectares in size, the vineyard is now biodynamically farmed.
Importer: Patrick Mata and Alberto Orte, Ole Imports, New Rochelle, NY; tel. (914) 740-4724