In Bond Fine Wine. 2021 Algueiro / Telmo Rodriguez Dolio, Ribeira Sacra, Spain, Spain. Red spain - red in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 95/100 (LG). Drinking window: 2025–2039. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Georgie Hindle (GH) — 95/100 · Decanter.com, 2025-07-24 · Drink 2025-2039
Sweet cherries with dried plums and incense and ash. Lovely clarity and focus on the palate, this has a lifted frame with savoury edged balsamic strawberries and wet stones. Clearly very mineral. Mouthwatering acidity gives the lift with so much salty salinity around. Sea breeze. A lovely effortless take, so easy to drink and like. Ends crisp with salty stones in the mouth. Perfectly balanced and…
Luis Gutiérrez (LG) — 95/100 · Burghound, 2025-07-24 · Drink 2025-2033
The 2021 Dolio is the third vintage of a cuvée of 45% Mencía, 25% Sousón, 15% Brancellao, 7.5% Merenzao and 7.5% Caíño selected from two of their vineyards, Carballocobo and Cortezada, with each grape providing something and the blend of all is better than each separately. The full clusters were foot trodden and fermented in a tronconic oak vat, and part of the destemmed grapes was added and ferm…