Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST this is well-cut and minerally

this is well-cut and minerally

A Champagne of genuine substance and elegance

and almost nobody in California plants it

Thibaud Boudignon planted this single vineyard in 2015 on the former monastery site adjacent to his acclaimed "Clos de la Hutte

a Tuscan dessert wine

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST this is well-cut and minerallyTintilla de Rota was nearly extinct, a native red grape of the Cadiz coast all but plowed under in sherry country until Alberto Orte went looking for the last old vines. What he found makes a wine that has almost nothing to do with what you'd expect from southern Spain: dark, savory, and salt licked, grown on the same bright albariza chalk that gives fino its lift. Orte ferments with native yeasts, some whole clusters, and foot treading, then ages it