Winemaker Notes
This wine was born out love, out of intuition. Faithful to their belief to recover part of their past, or their traditions, they chose to make a Mediterranean white wine using local grape varieties. Voluptuousness, elegance and rectitude. Words with a capital letter. This wine will remind you of the fragrances of autumn, ripe fruit, nuts and raisins, seed, an enchanting creamy texture with a long finish.
Blend: 50% Macabeu, 40% Garnatxa Blanca, 10% Cartoixa
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The white 2020 Dido Blanc was produced with a blend of Macabeo, Garnacha Blanca and Cartoixà (Xarel.lo) fermented in different containers, foudres, concrete and some barriques, where the wine also matured for around one year. They did a little more skin contact with the Macabeo, less than in 2018, with the limestone chalkiness and serious, stony sensations and with unnoticeable oak. 19,000 bottles were produced. They do as much white as they can, because they like the whites very much.
With hundreds of white grape varieties to choose from, winemakers have the freedom to create a virtually endless assortment of blended white wines. In many European regions, strict laws are in place determining the set of varieties that may be used in white wine blends, but in the New World, experimentation is permitted and encouraged. Blending can be utilized to enhance balance or create complexity, lending different layers of flavors and aromas. For example, a variety that creates a soft and full-bodied white wine blend, like Chardonnay, would do well combined with one that is more fragrant and naturally high in acidity. Sometimes small amounts of a particular variety are added to boost color or aromatics. Blending can take place before or after fermentation, with the latter, more popular option giving more control to the winemaker over the final qualities of the wine.
