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Phinca Durmiente Rufete Blanco
2014
4.0
Region
Spain › Castile and León › Sierra de Salamanca
Type
white · still
Grapes
Rufete Blanco
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
On lees
14 months (1.2 years)
Tasting Notes(1)
4.0
Honey and dried herbs. It may not be the most complex, and it still reads a touch young despite the years - but it drinks well: the finish isn't especially long and the acidity could stand a notch higher, yet the structure is sound. A rare, nearly-lost Rufete Blanco from the Sierra de Salamanca, fermented on its lees in acacia barrels by David Sampedro of Bhilar. I liked it.
About
Phinca Durmiente is the single-vineyard white cuvée that David Sampedro Gil of Bodegas Bhilar makes from old-vine Rufete Blanco, an indigenous and near-extinct white variety of the Sierra de Salamanca in southern Castilla y León also known locally as Verdejo Serrano. The 2014 is bottled as 100% Rufete Blanco. The grapes are hand-harvested and hand-destemmed, macerated on skins for about three days, then fermented with indigenous yeast and aged in two- to three-year-old French oak barrels with daily batonnage, remaining on the lees roughly fourteen months until bottling. The label carries only 'Viñedos en la Sierra de Salamanca' rather than a denomination of origin. It was imported into the United States by Regal Wine Imports of Moorestown, New Jersey.
