Ramiro Ibanez Ube Miraflores Blanco 2024 agrapart A great sake to try

A great sake to try warmed as well as slightly chilled

we found slow-growth American white oaks with a particularly porous structure

and marmalade on the nose

Selected by Mary Taylor for its soulful character and food-pairing prowess—serious Portuguese winemaking from a producer building a name for artisanal quality

Ramiro Ibanez Ube Miraflores Blanco 2024 agrapart A great sake to tryThis is the wine that ended the argument about whether Palomino is a boring grape. Ramiro Ibanez calls his bodega an albarizatorio a laboratory for the white chalk soil of Sanlucar and Miraflores is his benchmark bottling, drawn from old vines, some 80 to 90 years old, spread across several plots of albariza on the Atlantic edge of town. It's Palomino made as a table wine: no fortification, whole cluster pressed, fermented spontaneously in old Jerez