Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 delicate orange peel and hints

delicate orange peel and hints of exotic wine drenched nuts

Fermentation is with native yeasts in stainless steel

Finished in Rye barrels in Kentucky

Born in Ireland

This vintage offers a refined balance of ripe dark fruit

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 delicate orange peel and hintsAlbillo is a grape most people have never heard of a rare Spanish white long written off as rustic country wine filler. Juan Antonio Ponce thinks it deserves better. Back home in Manchuela, high on the chalky central plateau, he farms old Albillo vines biodynamically and treats them with the seriousness usually reserved for grand crus: whole cluster fermentation, neutral oak, barely any sulfur. What comes out is pure, textured, and quietly mineral a