Right now is World Verdejo Day – a day to have fun considered one of Spain’s nice white grape varieties. Uncover Verdejo’s versatility with prime scoring types from Rueda and past.
One in all Spain’s most planted white grape varieties, Verdejo is indigenous to the Rueda DO in northern Spain, however is a singular selection grown throughout the nation.
Youthful Verdejo wines make for the proper summer season aperitif with herby citrus, stone fruit and tropical aromas balanced by mouth-watering acidity. Juicy and refreshing, this in style type of Verdejo is produced to be drunk younger.
However the selection gives far more with oaked, oxidised, candy and fortified types displaying versatility and potential, as evident from Decanter’s Spanish Verdejo panel tasting earlier this 12 months and lately introduced outcomes from the Decanter World Wine Awards.
Scroll all the way down to see award-winning Spanish Verdejo wines from DWWA 2022
Taking a look at Spanish Verdejo outcomes from the 2022 competitors, Rueda was awarded a majority of medals, however award-winning Verdejo wines might be discovered from Almansa, La Mancha, Cigales and Rioja to Castilla y Léon, Uclés and Valles de Benavente.
Tasted and rated blind by among the world’s main wine consultants, the best scoring Verdejo wine at DWWA 2022 was awarded a Worth Platinum (97 factors) to Asda’s Additional Particular Palacio de Vivero Verdejo, Rueda 2021.
Providing distinctive high quality for its worth at simply £5.50 a bottle, the judges commented on its intriguing citrus and tropical bouquet, vivid and recent palate, zesty acidity and lingering end.
Exemplifying Verdejo’s versatility, the second highest scoring Verdejo wine was awarded to a extra atypical, historic type for De Alberto’s fortified wine, Dorado Dulce NV. Awarded a Gold medal and 96 factors, this wine is made in demijohns uncovered to the solar, then aged in a solera with some residual sugar remaining.
De Alberto’s dry type, Dorado NV, was additionally awarded a Gold medal – each types displaying nutty and oxidative notes with saline traits and lengthy, complicated finishes.
With one Platinum, 5 Gold and 27 Silver medals awarded to Spanish Verdejo wines produced in a spread of types, under uncover 13 top-scoring examples from the Decanter World Wine Awards to have fun World Verdejo Day with.
DWWA 2022: Award-winning Spanish Verdejo wines
Youthful & Recent
Asda, Additional Particular Palacio de Vivero, Rueda 2021
Platinum (Worth), 97 factors
The intriguing bouquet mixes citrus, tropical fruit, melon and pear characters to nice impact. It stays vivid and recent by the palate, the fruit full of life and the feel enhances the pithy flavours and weighty mouthfeel. Zesty acidity runs its course and lingers on the lengthy end. Excellent! Alc 13%
Bodega Cuatro Rayas, Cantarranas, Rueda 2021
Gold (Worth), 95 factors
Eager natural, lemon, pear and floral notes burst deliciously by the nostril onto the palate. Mineral, crunchy inflections to the end and aftertaste. The focus of flavour is up there too. A wine with a vivid end {that a} vast viewers will take pleasure in — and such nice worth! Alc 13.1%
Altos de Ontañon, Rippa Dorii Natural, Rueda 2021
Silver, 92 factors
This has scrumptious tropical and orchard fruit aromas and flavours, vivid acidity and an extended, citrusy end. Good worth. Alc 13.5%
Marqués de Riscal, Barón de Chirel Viñas Centenarias, Castilla y Léon 2020
Silver, 90 factors
Delicate lemon and bay leaf nostril. The palate can also be delicate with positive citrus pith and lactic notes and a contact of salt and pepper on the finish. Subtle stuff! Alc 13.5%
Pradorey, Castilla y Léon 2020
Silver, 90 factors
Restrained apple nostril. The palate has bolder grapefruit, chalk and inexperienced apple qualities. Very lengthy, savoury, toasty end. Poised and pleasing. Alc 14%
Oaked & Oxidative
Diez Siglos, Barrel Fermented, Rueda 2020
Gold, 95 factors
A really intense wine with magnificent nutty, herbaceous, creamy and spicy oak aromas, plus a whiff of lanolin. The palate is rounded and broad. Tons happening right here with a really lengthy, complicated end. Wonderful, gastronomic stuff! You possibly can simply lock it away for a while too. Alc 13%
Matarromera, Fermentado en Barrica, Rueda 2018
Gold, 95 factors
An especially juicy and vibrant type, this wine is laden with oak, but the unique fruit shines by: mango, banana, white cherries, cashew nuts, guava, kumquat and lavender on each the nostril and palate. Pretty texture with a really lengthy and sophisticated end. A prime wine. Alc 13%
Bodegas Vidal Soblechero, Pagos de Villavendimia Finca Matea, Castilla y Léon 2013
Silver, 94 factors
Dense and wealthy with apple aromatics. The palate has savoury and oxidative notes and a powdery texture; simply the type that many will relish. Alc 13.5%
De Alberto, Pálido, Rueda NV
Silver, 92 factors
A distinguished wine with a really intense balsamic and natural nostril and palate, recent acidity and a very lengthy end. Alc 15%
Bodegas Naia, Náiades, Rueda 2018
Silver, 91 factors
Fairly linden leaf and wooden polish aromatics. The palate has a heat and generosity, with lemon curd, beeswax and aloe flavours, ending on a mildly spicy notice. Alc 14%
Candy & Fortified
De Alberto, Dorado Dulce, Rueda NV
Gold, 96 factors
Impeccable wine with wonderful scents of toast, honey, walnuts and toasted almonds. It’s extraordinarily well-made with nice size and purity of flavour and no scarcity of complexity. It’s all very recent within the mouth and finely composed with stunning almond and saline character. Terrific wine! Alc 16%
De Alberto, Dorado, Rueda NV
Gold, 95 factors
Like a refined amontillado sherry, that is extraordinarily complicated and nutty. Within the mouth, it’s vivid and full of life with an amazingly lengthy and refreshing almondy end. A extremely expressive instance with distinctive drive and purity and it invitations the second glass in no unclear style. Alc 17%
Bodegas Otero, El Cubeto 113 Reserva de la Familia Otero, Valles de Benavente NV
Silver, 93 factors
Golden brown and really expressive, that is a tremendous liqueur type with heat alcohol and saline, marmalade and nutty flavours. Finishes lengthily. Alc 20%
