Bodegas Nodus El Renegado Blanco Utiel-Requena 2025
£9.75
The wine
Bright and aromatic notes of white fruit and delicate florals lead to a refreshing and beautifully balanced palate, with vibrant fruit character and a crisp finish. The Moscatel adds the perfume, the Macabeo keeps it dry.
Utiel-Requena sits inland from Valencia on a plateau at 700 to 900 metres, where Mediterranean influence gives way to something distinctly continental. Macabeo with Moscatel gives an aromatic, fresh white, and the altitude is what supplies the acidity that the latitude would otherwise deny.
The producer
Bodegas Nodus
View all Bodegas Nodus winesBodegas Nodus farms at Utiel-Requena, inland from Valencia on a high plateau at around 700 to 900 metres, where the Mediterranean influence gives way to something distinctly continental.
The region exists because of Bobal. The grape is the third most planted red in Spain and grown almost nowhere outside this corner of the country, and for most of the twentieth century it went into bulk wine and grape concentrate. It has thick skins, deep colour and unusually high acidity for a warm climate, and old bush vines produce something considerably better than the region's reputation suggests. Growers have only recently begun bottling it seriously.
El Renegado, the renegade, is the estate's range name, and the wines are made in a fresh, unoaked style intended to show what Bobal actually gives rather than what oak can add to it.
