Martinsancho Rueda Verdejo 2022 CS20230516 the Soberano Carignan has an

the Soberano Carignan has an intense

stony parcel of clay-rich Bokkeveld shale

and overall very unique whiskey

where fine limestone minerality and elegant structure define the character

wet granite

Martinsancho Rueda Verdejo 2022 CS20230516 the Soberano Carignan has anWithout 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