Guitian Godello Valdeorras 

Drinking a nice white tonight with steak and roasted vegetables. 

The label is Guitian in a beautiful art deco style. The grape is Godello, native to Galicia. The year was 2005.

  • The smell? Rich pineapple and almond.
  • The taste? Tropically utterly nuttily honeyly butterly with a little bit of mandarin orange peel going on in there too, just for kicks. 
  • Overall?  I really liked it. It’s not a “skin and bones” wine like a Chablis or Sancerre. Rather, this wine has serious curves. More of a Catherine Zeta Jones than a Keira Knightley.

Wine word of the day: “unctuous”

Guitian Godello Valdeorras 2005
In the Sunday Business Post’s “3 wines to try, buy and put by” last week, Tomas Clancy used the term “unctuous“ a word I had heard but probably never used before.

Unctuous means oily or greasy and is the perfect word to describe the buttery texture of this gorgeous Godello.

Guitian elsewhere

Read the rating of the 2002 Guitian over at Senior Barrow’s Spittoon.biz