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Grande Reserva Branco White

The 2016 Soito Grande Reserva Branco White has earned its place in The World of Fine Wine’s handpicked collection of tasting notes, featuring insights from the world’s foremost wine authorities.

Soito Grande Reserva Branco White wine bottle

Wine Name
Grande Reserva Branco White

Wine Producer
Soito

Score
92

Wine Style
White - Dry

Grape Type
Malvasia Fina
Encruzado

Country
Portugal

Vintage
2016

SF | Bright gold, lustrous; the aromatic is dominated by nuts, figs and crystallised lemon; savoury notes in the ascendancy. This theme reverberates down the palate; the concentration of the fruit, albeit displaying secondary characteristic, is sufficiently powerful to ensure that the ensemble is structurally coherent;. the soft sweet notes of fig and white chocolate can only serve as a bonus, 92
AJ | A rich gold now, with some green glints Mellow and poised, but the fruits are still singing here, and they are very pure too: honey, nectarine, pineapple. An attractive sweet oak sheen adds to the appeal, bringing vanilla and lanolin. Intense, vivid and driving. Acids carries the concentration, which is almost a little stressful: an arrowhead in flight. You wouldn't doze through this, that's for sure -- and it still have much to offer.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2027. 90
RM | mid-deep in hue, though still with a green tinge; rich, heady, integrated beurre blanc fruit with a whiff of wood smoke on the nose; similarly rich buttery flavours on the palate, ripe with good integration and lemon-butter freshness with new oak flavours showing up on the finish. Impressive.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2030. 93

Details

Wine expert Simon Field
Andrew Jefford
Richard Mayson
Tastings year 2024
Region Dão
AppellationDOC
% Alcohol By Volume14
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