Nanclares y Prieto, Dandelion 2024

100% Albariño
Organic, Vegan
Rías Baixas, Galicia, Spain

From the importer:

The hand-harvested grapes are gently pressed in a pneumatic press into stainless steel tanks without destemming. The wine ferments and rests in tank on its lees for 5-7 months, with weekly batonnage for the first 1-3 months. Bottled without stabilization or clarification, and with only a gentle mechanical filtration and small addition of SO2.

Alberto Nanclares and Silvia Prieto make transparent, Atlantic-influenced wines, mainly with Albariño from old vines around the village of Cambados (where the winery is located). Employing organic farming practices and a restrained hand in the cellar, the pair have managed something very rare: the refinement of Albariño into angular, age-worthy wines that express the fascinating terruños of Cambados and Rías Baixas. The essence of their approach is reverence for the vineyard, from organic farming to fermentation by native yeasts.