Envinate Palo Blanco 'Los Molinas' 2024

The 2024 Palo Blanco Las Molinas comes from a year with a homogeneous and normal production and also homogeneous ripeness. The wine is healthy and clean, and it achieved very good ripeness and kept very good freshness. It matured in a 20-year-old Italian foudre where it went through full malolactic. It's still a baby, with a bright and pale color and a slightly reductive nose, which I guess is a bit dizzy from the recent bottling. It has notes of struck match and a core of dry herbs, spices and flowers. It comes in at 12% alcohol, with a pH of 3.2 and 7.32 grams of acidity. It is vibrant and pungent, with great depth and complexity. It is long, dry and tasty, with a strong mineral sensation in the finish that is crunchy and salty. This should age magnificently in bottle. 2,000 bottles produced, a little less than in 2023, but they used more of this for the regular Palo Blanco blend. This It was bottled in July 2025. Drink 2025 – 2034, 99 pts, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate