Algueira, Dolio Vintage:2019 Both bottles I tasted

Both bottles I tasted

There is ample minerality suffusing the more powerful and appealingly textured flavors that also coat the mouth with dry extract while buffering the very firm but not hard tannic spine on the hugely long finish

Bone-dry finish but masses of character in a wine without masses of alcohol

low key Pomerol with a red cherry core of fruit that is fully ready to drink

broad wine comes across as less wild than the Le Désir and La Joie bottlings

Algueira, Dolio Vintage:2019 Both bottles I tastedThe 2019 Dolio is a cuve of Menca, Brancellao (quite a lot here), Sousn, Cao and Garnacha Tintorera. It was created as a blend with the help of Telmo Rodrguez and Pablo Eguzkiza in this first vintage, but they should go much further in future years. They selected north and west facing vineyards to achieve more freshness in the wine, trying to reflect the huge potential of Ribeira Sacra. The full clusters were foot trodden and fermented in a tronconic