Mullineux Olerasay 4°

This is a true masterpiece from Andrea Mullineux. Her NV Olerasay 4º is a fractional blend of the straw wine (made with high-acidity Chenin Blanc from granite soils) from the 2008 to the 2023 vintages. Basically, she holds back a few barrels each year to create a solera-styled blend. The wine continues to contract and concentrate through evaporation, becoming ever more stable and enriched along the way. This wine has an 8% alcohol content, 11 grams per liter of total acidity and 365 grams per liter of residual sugar, one gram for every day of the year. The wine is quite delicate, with ethereal aromas of melted honey in tea, candied ginger slices and pastry cream studded with diced orange peel. It shows seamless richness and unstoppable length. Andrea Mullineux calls it ‘pixilated and defined.’ This special wine has only been produced four times. Drink date: 2027-2060. Score – 98. (Monica Larner, robertparker.com, June 5, 2025)