Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 aging in stainless and 20%

aging in stainless and 20% barrel with bâtonnage for six months

bottled without fining or filtration to preserve raw authenticity

Beautiful aromatics of roses

delicate orange peel and hints of exotic wine drenched nuts

Finished in Rye barrels in Kentucky

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 aging in stainless and 20%Albillo 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