Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 MARQUE She cold extracts the botanicals

She cold extracts the botanicals in water over 4-6 weeks and blends the finished product to create a balanced beverage with no added sweeteners

supple center extends into a stellar

and could be thought of in that style though on the more fun and less powerful/serious side of BdN

and Chardonnay

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 MARQUE She cold extracts the botanicalsAlbillo is a grape most people have never heard of a rare Spanish white long written off as rustic country wine filler. Juan Antonio Ponce thinks it deserves better. Back home in Manchuela, high on the chalky central plateau, he farms old Albillo vines biodynamically and treats them with the seriousness usually reserved for grand crus: whole cluster fermentation, neutral oak, barely any sulfur. What comes out is pure, textured, and quietly mineral a