Martinsancho Rueda Verdejo 2022 CS20230516 sitting on a thin sliver

sitting on a thin sliver of stony limestone directly below Le Musigny

and overall very unique whiskey

stony parcel of clay-rich Bokkeveld shale

wet granite

fruit-driven finish and ensure years of complexity unfolding as the wine ages gracefully

Martinsancho Rueda Verdejo 2022 CS20230516 sitting on a thin sliverWithout this vineyard, Verdejo might not be here at all. In the 1970s, as growers across Rueda ripped out shy bearing Verdejo for higher yielding Viura and Palomino, Angel Rodriguez refused to touch his family's 17th century Martinsancho plot in La Seca. In 1976 he regrafted his best land using its cuttings, and that original scrap of gnarled, pre phylloxera vines still stands, still supplying nurseries across Europe with the real thing. Spain