2022 - Remelluri Blanco, Rioja

We made it back to Remelluri in 2025 for the first time in a few years, and once again I managed to buy a few bottles of the rare and sought after white wine from this beautiful property in Labastida de Alava. The field blend of grape varieties gives a complex and luscious unrolling of acacia blossom, sage, grilled spices, white pear, elderflower blossom, preserved lemons, everything vivid, taut and perfectly woven together. Telmo Rodríguez has been making Remelluri Blanco since the early 1990s (even if he spent a few years away before returning to the family property in 2010), and this is a wine with serious pedigree, that has more than proved its ageing ability. Always, always worth securing if you find a bottle.

The white 2022 Blanco, produced with vines at high altitudes (between 605 and 805 meters above sea level). It's ripe, expressive and aromatic, with notes of acacia flowers, white fruit and pepper. It's tender and juicy, with spiciness and a creamy twist and ripeness reflecting the character of the very dry and warm year with 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.24 and 5.68 grams of acidity. It has a round and fleshy mouthfeel. It mixes varieties and different vinifications and matured in used barriques, foudres and concrete eggs for one year. 11,430 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024.