Description
A startlingly good wine, fresh and zingy with layers of crisp quenching elderflower, gooseberry, lime juice and wet stones. Made from the native Verdejo grape this could easily be confused with a New Zealand Sauvignon or warm vintage Sancerre – it is perfect with shellfish, trout, baked salmon or interesting salads and light cheeses
Decanter 90 points:
“Honeyed and leesy nose, with rich marmalade aromas and fennel undertones. The texture is creamy, with a juicy finish.”
Wine Enthusiast – 93 points:
“The first thing that caught my attention was a series of Verdejos made with grapes from old vines and wisely aged on lees. This method brought a new texture to the wines and a clean and polished style with radical purity.”
Matthew Jukes Wine of the Week:
“Bodega Hermanos del Villar makes this innocent-looking white wine. But beneath the surface, there is so much class here it defies belief. You can drink it at speed instead of any ubiquitous dry white and amaze your taste buds or slow down and admire the glorious vinous landscape of flavour set out before you. Oro is a slender, perfumed lemon pith and green apple skin-scented wine with uncommon complexity and length. It is my vinous vision for 2023, and it could not be more convivial or more soothing if it tried.”