Cara Sur Criolla Chica 2023 EGLY24 ripe Bordeaux vintage

ripe Bordeaux vintage

and green apple

The Reserva 'Roda' is the middle tier of the house — between entry-level Sela and the flagship Roda I — and the 2021 leans into Roda's red-fruit signature: bright raspberry and red plum

Production is tiny

elderflower and especially orange peel

Cara Sur Criolla Chica 2023 EGLY24 ripe Bordeaux vintageCara Sur is the project of Pancho Bugallo and Sebastian Zuccardi in the Calingasta Valley of San Juan high desert country in the shadow of Cerro Mercedario, named for the harder southern face of that peak. They work ancient, pergola trained, often pre phylloxera vines of Criolla varieties, the heirloom grapes that arrived with Spanish settlers in the 16th century. This Criolla Chica (known in Spain as Listan Prieto) is pale, perfumed, and weightless