Nortico Alvarinho 2025 SF Chronicle - Past Pick nose on the fruit

nose on the fruit

yielding a wine of polish and immediacy that drinks beautifully young while promising real cellar life

This comes from a single barrel from the depths of the famous Willett Family Reserve

this is fully resolved Right Bank Bordeaux at a moment when older bottles like this are increasingly hard to find

If you have written off celebrity cuvées

Nortico Alvarinho 2025 SF Chronicle - Past Pick nose on the fruitCross the Minho river south from Spain's Ras Baixas and Albario becomes Alvarinho, the same grape with a different passport, and in Mono and Melgao it finds arguably its finest address. The vines grow in granite and schist, far enough inland to ripen properly while cool nights keep the wine electric. Nortico skips the injected CO2 that gives so much of the region's white wine its spritzy fizz, and what's left is a fuller, more serious bottle with real