Vino Blanco Protos Verdejo Cuvée
White wine Protos Verdejo Cuvée with D.O. Rueda. Made from Verdejo grapes. Wine of the Protos Winery, from organic vineyards suitable for vegans, combining tradition and respect for the environment.
91 Vinous | 90 Tim Atkin | 90 Decanter | 90 Peñín
Age: Joven.
Winery: Bodegas Protos.
Tasting note White Wine Protos Verdejo Cuvée:
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Straw yellow in colour with greenish hues characteristic of the variety. Clean and bright.
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Medium-high intensity, somewhat fresher but with less complexity than traditional Verdejo.
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It has an easy and sweet entry, good weight of fruit on the palate and polished tannins. Good acidity that invites to drink and a medium persistent finish.
Optimum service temperature: 6º-7ºC.
A pairing: Rissotto de pescado blanco.
Ingredients: 2 fillets of fresh cod, 1 glass of round rice, 2 leeks, 1 bag of spinach, 1/2 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 cups of vegetable stock, chopped parsley, olive oil, pepper and salt.
Elaboration:
- Cut the monkfish into cubes, discarding the central spine and place it on a large platter.
- Put salt and pepper and add the chopped coriander on top, the onion cut into very thin slices and the chopped garlic.
- Squeeze two limes on top so that the fish is well impregnated with its juice and let marinate for at least 1 hour.
- Drain the fish and cut the 4 limes removing the top part to be able to vary them from their pulp. Fill with ceviche.
Bon Appetite!
Protos, a Greek word that means "first", was, in effect, the first winery to produce what 50 years later would be the Denomination of Origin Ribera del Duero. In recent times, and like other wineries in the area, found in Rueda the ideal place to make a white wine (not allowed in the D.O. Ribera del Duero) and chose La Seca (Valladolid), known as "the cradle of Verdejo."
It is one of the few wineries of the Denomination that elaborate rose, since most of the wineries turn into the production of red wines. After the harvest, bunches of grapes are stripped (separate the berries of the raspon or woody part of the cluster) and crushed to stay macerated with the mosto 16 hours, this maceration gives it its beautiful color and allows extracting all the aromas of the skins.