Reservas and Gran Reservas

Absolutely with food.
And with considerable bottle age (for the modern ones as the GR’s already are old)
And blind !

Fun... and I don’t use to like blind tastings, but I’d accept the one we’re talking about 8-D

Cheers,

Jose

That’s why I open a sub-thread ;)
Really odd to find Reserva or GR outside DOC Rioja. Some new wineries are doing some white wines in an old-new fashioned way. Why old? They use viura. Why new? Woooood treatment. Tondonia, Gravonia, Capellanía (like Prince: The wine formerly known as Murrieta Blanco/El Dorado), but they’ve changed their style, so I don’t know what to think about it ’cos I don’t have tasted yet. New? El Contador de Gallocanta... but they’ve changed the name and now is something like ’Qué bello cacareaba’ (fun translation:’What a beautiful cock-a-doodle-do!’ ;) I don’t remember any other at this moment... So maybe we’ve less than a bunch of white Reserva and GR...

Regards,

Jose

Jose,
I have to hold my hand up and admit I know very little about Spanish whites ...New style or Old.

We all overhere are learning every single day/sip! ;)

Regards,

Jose

I have tried several hundreds of different Spanish white wines… and IMHO the average level is just so-so. Buuuut, there are also some interesting exceptions, for instance, Remelluri White, the above-mentioned Ex-Gallocanta, As Sortes, Do Ferreiro Cepas Vellas, Tondonia whites (Reserva & Grand Reserva), Emilio Rojo, Vinya La Calma, El Rocallís (I will not talk about generosos and cavas in this thread).

... and Itsasmendi number 7, and Nieva Pie Franco, and Jose Pariente ... but I agree: spanish whites have stil a long way to go ...

MaJesus

Whether they’re Reserva/GR or not ;) Well, not all of them use this kind of nomenclature but some of them use a common method that looks like the ’clasical’ used in R and GR.

Regards,

Jose