Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 which is only possible because

which is only possible because the family grows every grape themselves — 110 hectares farmed organically in Torrelavit

reflecting an harmonious evolution of the wine

quince kefir

and a touch of rye bread

Bordeaux Blanc that drinks like a white Burgundy in cool sunglasses

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 which is only possible becauseTintilla 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