Portal White

Pale straw in the glass, this wine has a bouquet of green apple and nectarine. Flavors of pear, ripe summer peach, vanilla, caramel and toasted hazelnut wind down to a smooth finish.

(2014) From chalky soils on the eponymous high ground of the 'Terra Alta'. This is made mostly from white Grenache, with 15% a mix of the aromatic and textural Sauvignon Blanc, Macabeo and Viognier. The estate is family run, and farmed organically. And the aromatics are good: juicy ripe pear, ripe Ogen melon and a suggestion of fat limey fruit too. In the mouth it has loads of flavour, and a nice mouth-filling texture, even creaminess. The fruit is quite bold, quite exotic with hints of mango and pineapple, but then very good, clean, orange and juicy apple fruit and acidity grips and squeezes the wine back together into a long, flavourful but crisp finish.