Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 The few years of age

The few years of age on the bottle integrates the tension and crisp acid into the middleweight fruit and provides the wine with tightrope-esque balance

Beautiful aromatics of roses

bottled without fining or filtration to preserve raw authenticity

sage brush

delicate orange peel and hints of exotic wine drenched nuts

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 CS20230828 The few years of ageAlbillo 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