Bodegas y Vinedos Ponce: Ponce Blanco 2023

2: Albilla 100%

5: weiß, trocken; 12,5% Vol.; Trinkreife: 2025–2035; Verpackt in: 6er

9: mineralisch

3: Lobenberg: 96/100; Parker: 94/100

6: Spanien, Manchuela

7: Allergene: Sulfite, Abfüllerinformation
Abfüller / Importeur: BODEGAS Y VIÑEDOS PONCE S.L., CTRA. CM-220, KM. 54,500, 16230 VILLANUEVA DE LA JARA-CUENCA, SPANIEN

Lobenberg: 100% Albilla, autochton und ein Unikat nur aus Manchuela. Sensationelle Frische und lebendige Säure nebst hoher Mineralität. Alkoholarm, salzig, scharf und extrem im Geradeauslauf. Eine faszinierende Einzigartigkeit, der extrem schmackhafte und zu Beginn etwas verschlossene Wein elkekrisiert mit seiner salzig mineralischen Chili- und Zitrusfrische.

2023 war sehr warm, aber er ist deutlich kühler und balancierter als der noch heißere und trockenere 2022. Nicht so aufregend und extrem wie 2021, eher eine reife und harmonische Version von 2020. Und so ist 2023 durchaus eine Fortsetzung der so großen Jahrgänge seit 2019. Luis Gutierez, Parkers Mann für Spanien, fasst den Jahrgang 2023 anhand von Alvaro Palacios Weingütern ganz im Westen und ganz im Osten, somit Landesübergreifend so zusammen: 2023 was an even more generous crop than 2022 … the wines have better balance, and it doesn't feel like a warm year at all. In fact, the wines feel more like they come from a cool year. It's a vintage that has a tendency toward reduction, not as much as 2020, but still reductive. But it's an elegant, stony reduction...The quality of the 2023s is stunning. There is a level of precision, cleanliness, symmetry and elegance that, if the end of the élevage and the bottling goes as expected, I must conclude that 2023 might be the finest vintage ... There might be other individual wines that reach higher peaks, but as an overall portfolio, the vintage 2023 represents the strongest collection ever produced.

Parker über: Ponce Blanco

-- Parker: The grapes for the white 2023 Ponce Blanco had to be picked 10 days earlier to keep the minerality, the white fruit and floral aromas and to avoid excess ripeness and low acidity. It keeps the citrus and salty twist. Juan Antonio Ponce believes this is one of the vintages with more aging potential, together with 2013, 2016 and 2018. It has 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.1 and 6.4 grams of acidity. It feels more Atlantic than Mediterranean, very mineral, with notes of wet chalk, pollen, beeswax and dry flowers. It's tasty and serious, keeping the freshness like if it were a cooler year. 18,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in late March 2024. I also tasted a bottle of 2013, when it was called Reto, and it had developed notes of diesel and wax, keeping the mineral core but a little tired already. A 2015 was much fresher.

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