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An Organic Verdejo with a Montrachet Bent, Ossian 2006 from Rueda

June 23, 2009 by serge the concierge

I am ashamed to say it but I have to confess that I have barely scratched the surface in sharing the wines that caught my eye and my attention at the numerous tastings I attended in the Spring 2009.

Let me get at least one off my list today with the Ossian 2006.

The wine is 100% Verdejo, from 180 years old, organically farmed vineyards near Rueda in Castilla y Leon.

This is the fruit of a collaboration between Aalto’s Javier Zaccagnini and Burgundian enologist Pierre Millemann and its style was inspired by the great Montrachets.

The 2007 Vintage has also now been released.

This is not a mega production.

Eric Asimov sings the praise of Rueda's white wines in Emerging, in Spain, to Warm Applause (NY Times, March 2008)

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