Fedellos Bastarda 2022

I tasted the very young and recently bottles 2022 Bastarda, which was produced like all previous vintages, with full clusters and indigenous yeasts, a long maceration and an elevage of eight months in used 500-litre French oak barrels. Bastarda (aka Merenzao or Trousseau) tends show more varietal in warmer years like 2022 (or 2020) but it’s still pale and delicate. They picked the grapes quite early that year. 5,000 bottles were filled in May 2023. 95 points, Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate, Nov 2023.