Enrique Garcia Arribas is the export manager for José Pariente. He tells the romantic story about the history of José Pariente and of the quality potential of the local grape Verdejo. We also talk about the new spanish wines and the future of spanish wine.

Tasting notes

5 months on lees. Ripe fruit, peach, orange blossom and elder flower on nose. Medium+ intensity in mouth, medium acidity, medium bodied, medium length. Pleasant through tasting curve. 85p 

Apricot flower, wax, light note of fresh wood, some grass, lime peel. 84p 

José Pariente Fermentado en barrica 2016
Ripe fruit, joghurt, honey melon, apples, light spice tones. Medium+ taste intensity, medium acidity, medium+ body, fruity at beginning of taste curve, then the oak takes over. 88p

Stony, peach, melon, white flowers. Medium intense taste intesity, medium acidity, medium+ body. Good concentration 90p

Gras, ripe goose berries, honey, flowers. Medium+ acidity, medium body, feels like drinking a kabinett. 80g residual sugar, 11% alc. 91p 

Strawberries, crushed raspberries, spice. Medium+ taste intensity, medium+ acidity, medium- body, low+ tannin. 90p

Quite mute on nose. Some red fruit. Medium+ acidity, medium body, medium tannin. High concentration. Good structure. Wins on aeration. 88p 

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Recorded at Don Pippo in Bergen.
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