Oxer Wines – Txakoli: Marko Skin 2022

2: Hondarribi Zuri 90%, Petit Manseng 10%

5: weiß, trocken; 13,0% Vol.; Trinkreife: 2025–2033; Verpackt in: 6er

3: Parker zu 2018: 93/100; Penin: 90/100

6: Spanien, Txakoli

7: Allergene: Sulfite

Parker zu 2018 über: Marko Skin

-- Parker zu 2018: And what about orange Txakoli? Well, again the Txakoli zone and grapes have produced a very unusual 'orange' wine, the 2018 Marko Skin. It's a varietal Hondarribi Zuri or Gros Corbu that was macerated with skins for 10 to 15 days in tinaja (terracotta amphorae) and finished fermenting in used 500-liter oak barrels, where the wine was kept with the lees for seven to 10 months. This has a bright amber color and a spectacular and very different nose with hints of diesel, quince paste and orange marmalade and a palate with fine tannins and great balance between the alcohol and acidity with 4.6 grams of residual sugar that go completely unnoticed. I have to say that this is one of my favorite orange wines, which tend to be too influenced by the process, but here it seems to keep some of the Txakoli character in the shape of freshness. Only 240 bottles were filled in July 2019. 93/100

Penin über: Marko Skin

-- Penin: Leicht oxidativ mit viel Persönlichkeit. Strohgelb. In der Nase helle Früchte, reifes Obst und welke Blumen. Getreide- und animalische Noten. Im Mund geschmackvoll, zartbitter und ausgewogen. 90/100

Weingut über: Marko Skin

-- Weingut: Skin clearly refers to the skin contact this wine has been given. In the label this is depicted as a skinless face, accompanied by the frase “Your skin attracts me with the gravity of the entire cosmos which outside suffers its impenetrable black eternity,” by Nicarguan poet Giaconda Belli. The vineyards are located in the village of Kortezubi, a little old town in Bizkaia, famous for its prehistoric caves which form a Unesco World Heritage Site. The vineyards are located on a clay loam topsoil over limestone subsoil. Slate can be found in some parts. After 15 days of skin contact in 300 litre amphorae, the skins are removed and the wine is left to ferment. It is then transferred to 225 litre French oak barrel to age for 8 months in contact with its lees. The wine is bottled unfiltered.

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Oxer Bastegieta ist im durch Picasso weltberühmt gewordenen Küstendorf Gernika im Baskenland geboren und aufgewachsen. In dieser Region begann er 1999 mit ersten Experimenten zur Erzeugung seiner Txakoli-Weine. Die Trauben stammten aus einem von seinem Vater gepflanzten Weinberg in der Nähe des Dorf...

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