Telmo Rodriguez - Basa 2017 | Monsieur Touton Selection

Tasting notes

The 2016 blend is 90% Verdejo, 10% Viura, giving it a more important focus on the native Verdejo than in the past, and doing away with Sauvignon Blanc. As always, it is a fantastically refreshing yet serious bottle of wine, with a range of aromas and flavors from stony mineral notes to citrus to tropical fruit. A great match for Spanish omelettes or pan-seared white fish.

Estate

Telmo Rodriguez is one of Spain's pioneer winemakers, advocating native grape varietals tied to the climates and conditions of their sites, and making world-class wines from undiscovered as well as known regions. Perhaps most impressive, while Telmo Rodriguez makes rare and limited wines of astonishing character and quality, his everyday wines have been equally praised, and widely recognized for the tremendous value they offer.

Vineyard

The fruit for Basa is sourced from different areas of the Rueda DO, from suppliers who practice sustainable farming. Training is a mixture of bush vine and cordon, and the soils are a combination of gravel and limestone.

Vinification

Basa is fermented entirely in stainless steel, and bottled in January following the harvest.

Wine

This refreshing blend of the native varieties Verdejo and Viura from Rueda has year after year been named one of Spain's and the world's great white wine values. The intense floral aromatics, freshness and wonderful texture are the result of the high elevation plantings in lime and gravel soils, with good drainage, that give rise to some of the best quality white wine grapes in Spain. The wine derives its name from red counterpart Baso, itself named after the country's ancient 'basoh' (gobelet)-shaped bushvines.

Spain Castilla Y Leon Rueda