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<p style="text-align: justify;">I always love to recommend another Spanish wine made with Godello ...one of my favorite grape varieties! I had the Amizade 2011 with Asian fusion flavors at one of my favorite Madrid fast food spots, <a title="StreetXO: exciting Asian street food in Madrid" href="http://planetavino.net/2013/08/08/madrids-best-restaurants-street-xo/" target="_self">StreetXO</a>, and it was a perfect match. This 2011 has very floral and citrus notes and it really handled the complex Asian combinations well. It's a fairly simple wine but really crisp and attractive and just what you are looking for in this case. The price is really budget friendly at about 10€ in Spain and about 15-20$ here in the US. The labels for the Spanish and US market are completely different, you can see the Spanish label here...the US label is totally black.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The 2010 vintage of this wine is mentioned in a New York Times <a title="New York Times article on Godello" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/dining/reviews/godello-wines-from-spain-wines-of-the-times.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">article</a> about Godello from 2012. It mentions "light minerality" as part of the flavor profile. I have only tasted the 2011, maybe it's the vintage, but the wine did not seem mineral at all but rather fruity and floral, with a bit of lees. My favorite Godellos are generally intensely mineral but in this case the easy floral and citrus notes made it a much better match for the StreetXO dishes. I hope to try the 2010 soon as the 2011 has not arrived in the US market yet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Amizade is a collaboration between top Albariño producer Do Ferreiro and the American importer De Maison Selections in the region of Monterrei in Galicia. It is mostly Godello, with a touch of the Treixadura variety added in. It spent 12 month aging with its lees in stainless steel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Check out some more of my recommended Godellos <a title="Spanish Wine Review: Avanthia Godello 2011" href="http://planetavino.net/2013/04/09/spanish-wine-review-avanthia-godello-2011/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a title="Spanish White Wine Review: Louro do Bolo 2011" href="http://planetavino.net/2013/01/24/wine-review-louro-do-bolo-2011/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a title="Undiscovered Spanish Wines: Ribeira Sacra" href="http://planetavino.net/2013/05/14/undiscovered-spanish-wines-ribeira-sacra/" target="_blank">here</a>. If you see the Amizade at a good price, it's a good introduction to Godello....give it a whirl! Any favorite Godellos out there?</p>
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