Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 and a touch of rye

and a touch of rye bread

Bordeaux Blanc that drinks like a white Burgundy in cool sunglasses

For those looking to take their classic negroni to the next level

California Grenache with the volume turned down and the energy turned up

reflecting an harmonious evolution of the wine

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 and a touch of ryeTintilla 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