91 points – Tim Atkin MW (2025 and 2024 vintages).
The expression of a native variety
Bilaire Blanco is made exclusively from Merseguera, a native variety from Alicante, from a vineyard planted in 1985 and cultivated in a goblet style.
The vines grow in stony, calcareous soils, conditions that favor a pronounced expression of the variety and help preserve its natural freshness. The result is a white wine that seeks to showcase the personality of Merseguera from its origin, without artifice.
The harvest is done manually, selecting the grapes at their optimal point of ripeness.
Freshness can also have depth.
After a brief cold pre-maceration, the grapes undergo gentle and prolonged pressing to extract only the best from the fruit. Fermentation takes place in French oak barrels, with all movements performed by gravity.
The wine then spends six months on its fine lees. This lees aging adds volume, texture, and complexity, while the oak integrates gradually without masking the fresh, varietal character of the Merseguera grape.
View: Pale yellow with bright highlights.
Nose: White fruit and citrus, accompanied by delicate herbaceous hints and subtle notes of vanilla and spices.
Mouth: Fresh, balanced, and enveloping, with breadth and well-integrated acidity. The texture and lees aging add depth and a clean, long, and harmonious finish.
The value of a native variety
Bilaire Blanco focuses on a variety deeply linked to Alicante and on a vineyard planted in 1985 that allows working with Merseguera from a more in-depth perspective.
The combination of manual harvesting, careful pressing, barrel fermentation and six months on lees seeks to demonstrate that freshness and complexity can coexist in a white wine with a clearly Mediterranean identity.
Ideal for fish, seafood, rice dishes, Mediterranean cuisine, white meats, and soft cheeses. Its freshness and texture make it especially versatile. It is recommended to serve it between 8 and 10 °C.
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GERARDO RODRIGUEZ ALAYRACH (Verified Purchase) –
Ideal for a snack
Anonymous (Verified Purchase) –
Excellent quality at a fair price. My favorite wine since I discovered it a couple of years ago.
JUAN JOSE FERNANDEZ RENEDO (Verified Purchase) –
JUAN JOSE FERNANDEZ RENEDO (Verified Purchase) –
Excellent service and the wine is superb
Anonymous (Verified Purchase) –
Very, very good! It surprised me, highly recommended.
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Anthony Newman (Verified Purchase) –
An excellent and unique wine for the price.
Hendrikus Pennings (Verified Purchase) –
I want more
Anonymous (Verified Purchase) –
Good white wine.
Anonymous (Verified Purchase) –
I liked it a lot, although I prefer other types of whites
Daniel (Verified Purchase) –
Pleasant on the palate.
JUAN (Verified Purchase) –
A very pleasant wine, different from the usual white wines.
Anonymous (Verified Purchase) –
pleasant
Jose Luis Millán Aranda (Verified Purchase) –
I haven't tried it yet. The delivery was fine, and the rating is just a guideline until I've tasted it.
Ana Isabel Aparicio Laguna (Verified Purchase) –
Very good, we liked it a lot when we tried it in Alicante, at a restaurant on Antonio Galdó Chápuli street
Carlos Masana –
A well-rounded wine. The oak is very well integrated with this Alicante variety (pre-phylloxera?). Hints of banana, apple compote, vanilla, a touch of pepper, very well balanced, with just the right acidity. I'll buy it!
SVETA –
SPECTACULAR R. Wow! I loved it.