Sara and René Sara and René Partida Bellvisos Blanc 2021 750ml

The cloudy and characterful white 2021 Gratallops Partida Bellvisos Blanc has the advantage of the much cooler year. It has a reductive quality (similar to the Cartoixa from Venus), kind of flinty/smoky toasted sesame seeds. It's a blend of white grapes, mostly Garnacha Blanca, fermented from the direct pressing of the bunches, fermented and matured in large neutral barrels. It opens up in the glass to notes of wild herbs and flowers, again with an absence of fruit, and comes in at 13.5% alcohol, with a medium-bodied palate, svelte and handsome, with light and inner energy. It has great complexity, and with time, it unfurls waves of new aromas, blue cheese, dried yellow flowers, pollen and wet stones. It's a truly world-class Mediterranean white.