Crios de Susana Balbo Torrontes 2013
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Wilfred
Wong
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Best enjoyed in its youth either by itself, or as a wonderful partner with smoked meats, mild to medium-strong cheeses, and seafood (especially crab!).
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
This Torrontes takes the varietal to a new place and time, not just another pretty face, but one serving up a firmness that only top flight wines possess. When I first nosed this wine, I swear I found some stones and minerals. As I continued, I realized that I did indeed find those elements and then some. A hint of white flowers, with a shading of peach fuzz took over and completed the wine's nuances. In the end, I found this wine multi-dimensional. Great with medium spiced twice cooked pork.
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After 22 years of winemaking, Susana Balbo has a strong sense of what she wants from her wines. From every harvest, she creates the grandest possible wines under her Susana Balbo label. To achieve this, she makes a rigorous selection of the finest barrels prior to making her final blends, dividing them into the parents (reserve level wines) and offspring or "crios."
Wines under her Crios label display ripe fruit flavors, excellent balance and concentration, and are meant to be enjoyed in their vibrant youth. These wines are produced under Dominio del Plata's code of sustainable agriculture.
Like Susana's own crios (a boy and a girl), they are extremely lovable and fun to be around. The label features a series of three connected and overlapping hands, an image inspired by a Mayan artifact. The artifact illustrates the interconnectedness of every generation, and the irony that we will be both the parent and the offspring at different times in our lives.