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Bodegas Pandora, Rueda, Spain
It’s easy to dismiss Verdejo as an unexciting grape variety and Rueda as a DO mostly delivering cheap-n-cheerful fare. Your expectations might change after you’ve tasted the wines from Bodegas Pandora. They strive to show how Rueda’s indigenous variety can produce wines of textural and aromatic complexity if handled correctly. Still great value but much more than simply cheerful.
A number of factors differentiate Pandora’s approach, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, from that of most Rueda producers. Their vines, the oldest of which were planted in 1980, have a respectable average age of 25 years. High density plantings and careful canopy management keep yields in check, in order to obtain only the best fruit, perfectly ripe and with optimal phenolic development. Such potential for complexity is brought to life in the cellar, where the juice undergoes a short maceration before fermentation, and all wines are aged on the lees before bottling. The result are wines with surprising flavour concentration, incredible structure, distinct texture and amazing balance of acidity and alcohol. The wines are careful blends of different parcels, each imparting specific characteristics to the final cuvée: aromatic intensity from fruit grown on gravelly soils; minerality from pebble-rich plots; roundness and structure from the parcels with higher clay content.
A number of factors differentiate Pandora’s approach, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, from that of most Rueda producers. Their vines, the oldest of which were planted in 1980, have a respectable average age of 25 years. High density plantings and careful canopy management keep yields in check, in order to obtain only the best fruit, perfectly ripe and with optimal phenolic development. Such potential for complexity is brought to life in the cellar, where the juice undergoes a short maceration before fermentation, and all wines are aged on the lees before bottling. The result are wines with surprising flavour concentration, incredible structure, distinct texture and amazing balance of acidity and alcohol. The wines are careful blends of different parcels, each imparting specific characteristics to the final cuvée: aromatic intensity from fruit grown on gravelly soils; minerality from pebble-rich plots; roundness and structure from the parcels with higher clay content.
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Bodegas Pandora, Rueda, Spain
It’s easy to dismiss Verdejo as an unexciting grape variety and Rueda as a DO mostly delivering cheap-n-cheerful fare. Your expectations might change after you’ve tasted the wines from Bodegas Pandora. They strive to show how Rueda’s indigenous variety can produce wines of textural and aromatic complexity if handled correctly. Still great value but much more than simply cheerful.
A number of factors differentiate Pandora’s approach, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, from that of most Rueda producers. Their vines, the oldest of which were planted in 1980, have a respectable average age of 25 years. High density plantings and careful canopy management keep yields in check, in order to obtain only the best fruit, perfectly ripe and with optimal phenolic development. Such potential for complexity is brought to life in the cellar, where the juice undergoes a short maceration before fermentation, and all wines are aged on the lees before bottling. The result are wines with surprising flavour concentration, incredible structure, distinct texture and amazing balance of acidity and alcohol. The wines are careful blends of different parcels, each imparting specific characteristics to the final cuvée: aromatic intensity from fruit grown on gravelly soils; minerality from pebble-rich plots; roundness and structure from the parcels with higher clay content.
A number of factors differentiate Pandora’s approach, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, from that of most Rueda producers. Their vines, the oldest of which were planted in 1980, have a respectable average age of 25 years. High density plantings and careful canopy management keep yields in check, in order to obtain only the best fruit, perfectly ripe and with optimal phenolic development. Such potential for complexity is brought to life in the cellar, where the juice undergoes a short maceration before fermentation, and all wines are aged on the lees before bottling. The result are wines with surprising flavour concentration, incredible structure, distinct texture and amazing balance of acidity and alcohol. The wines are careful blends of different parcels, each imparting specific characteristics to the final cuvée: aromatic intensity from fruit grown on gravelly soils; minerality from pebble-rich plots; roundness and structure from the parcels with higher clay content.