Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 reflecting an harmonious evolution of

reflecting an harmonious evolution of the wine

so it says something that they put this much care into a Sauvignon Blanc

Bordeaux Blanc that drinks like a white Burgundy in cool sunglasses

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

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 reflecting an harmonious evolution ofTintilla 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