The surprisingly aromatic 2021 Ercavio Blanco was produced with Airén grapes from a vintage with snow, frost and hail that lowered the yields to only 30% of a normal year. The grapes come from old vines, and the wine fermented with selected yeasts at low temperature for two months and was kept with the lees until bottling in December. It has some floral notes, herbs and spices and a tropical twist. The palate reveals a soft texture and mellow acidity with good ripeness and 13% alcohol. 15,000 bottles produced.

One of the very few quality whites produced with the Airén grape from La Mancha, the 2018 Ercavio Blanco was cropped from a very good vintage for Más Que Vinos. The wine was produced with the fruit of 14 hectares of old vines that are farmed organically, and it was bottled unoaked after a few months with the lees. It was a generous crop, but they managed to get healthy grapes. It's still very young and a little reductive over the core of white flowers, fennel and herbs, with a lemony note of freshness. It's lively and fresh. They picked a little earlier to achieve a fresher wine. The freshness makes it very good for food. 40,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2018.

Produced from one of the driest vintages in history, the white 2015 Ercavio Blanco is pure Airén from old vines cold-fermented and kept in contact with the lees until bottling. It's in this kind of vintage when the local varieties, usually old vines, show their adaptation to these harsh conditions. The nose is clean and fresh, with notes of white flowers and fruit, subtle, not exuberant, balanced with a palate that shows those same characteristics. It is still very young and fruit-driven. As I saw last time, these whites are able to keep in bottle for a while. If this is not the best Airén around, it's clearly among the best. Incredible value. 40,000 bottles.

I tasted the final blend of this wine, with the sulfur correction and everything a mere couple of weeks before bottling, so the final version should be very much like it. The white 2014 Ercavio Blanco is pure Airén, the white grape from La Mancha, a shy grape, kept in tank in contact with the lees until bottling. The wine is fresh and fruit-driven, quite light but at the same time with volume from the contact with the lees. It's still very young, and I like it with time in bottle, when the green apple aromas turn into white flowers and develop aniseed and fennel notes. Fresh and clean, very pleasant to drink. Just as a reference point, I tasted this wine back to 2010, and the different vintages were taking a different character, with less fruit and developing some honeyed aromas, with even some balsamic, camphor-like character quite typical of white Mediterranean whites. So you don't need to drink the wine as soon as possible, in fact you might like it more on its second year. Great value. 40,000 bottles.

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