Nortico Alvarinho 2025 040926OFFER redcurrant) and intense colour

redcurrant) and intense colour

Monarde is the French name for bee balm

Plush with salty notes of grilled pineapple

Green melon and a touch of woodruff lend this a scented air

though decanting helps if you open one young

Nortico Alvarinho 2025 040926OFFER redcurrant) and intense colourCross the Minho river south from Spain's Ras Baixas and Albario becomes Alvarinho, the same grape with a different passport, and in Mono and Melgao it finds arguably its finest address. The vines grow in granite and schist, far enough inland to ripen properly while cool nights keep the wine electric. Nortico skips the injected CO2 that gives so much of the region's white wine its spritzy fizz, and what's left is a fuller, more serious bottle with real