White Search 2021

Luis Gutiérrez: Produced with white grapes from the same old vineyard as Procura Tinto, Procura Branco is a wine they have been producing since 2013. Susana Esteban wanted a white that would age for a long time in the bottle and thought this could be done with this vineyard. Procura Branco 2021 has a fragrant nose of flowers, wild herbs and spices – it smells like a vineyard, she told me – I visited in winter. It was fermented in stainless steel and aged in used Burgundy barrels, the same nine barrels, year after year. It has an elegant profile, but with concentration and power, good maturation, 13.2% alcohol and a very low pH (3.2), denoting freshness. It is balanced, with power and elegance. It is always bottled before the next harvest, so that they can reuse the barrels.