Bodega Pirineos Orange Macabeo. The base flavour of the Macabeo is Farinoso’, it smells of cereal, like ripe wild wheat. This base is simple, soft, earthy and attractive. In making an ‘orange’ version, Jesus has chosen to gently enhance ripeness and oxidative skin influences in a combination of subtle influences, and the result is a complex of many quiet added notes: cinnamon, bergamot, orange or mandarin peel, ginger and dried mango, orange pekoe’s smoky steel all mingling in a spicy, almost muscat-like fruit base … the latter no doubt due to the subtle addition of gewurztraminer!
The mouth is fresh with good natural acid salt-rimming round, gently textural fruit.