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Cantayano - La Seca Verdejo 2023

Price: $26.99

Sale Price: $22.97

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Producer Cantayano
Country Spain
Region Rueda
Subregion La Seca
Varietal Verdejo
Vintage 2023
Sku 70533
Size 750ml
 

You should not miss the opportunity to experience this wine. Burgundian in complexity, dare I say beguiling and profound, this is stunning white wine from central Spain. The gentle, rolling hills of Rueda are the ancestral home of the noble Verdejo grape. Prized for its firm structure, complexity, and ability to transmit the limestone minerality of the Rueda soils, Verdejo produces one of Spain’s most distinctive white wines. Vigneron Manuel Cantalapiedra farms organically and even incorporates rigorous biodynamic practices. The vines are planted on sandy soil with abundant pebbles over marl and limestone. The harvested grapes are destemmed, gently pressed with a pneumatic press, and fermented with native yeasts in 80% stainless steel tanks and 20% used French oak barrels. The wine undergoes malolactic conversion after which it rests for 12 months on the lees before bottling without fining or filtering. The result is a complex, richly-textured white with great depth and length. On the nose, you will find a core of apple, lemon peel and peach fruit, laced through with bread-dough. Unctuous with a textural ying and yang of suave richness followed by a mouth-watering electric shiver of refreshing acidity on a very long finish. Ideal with a rich seafood dish, this will also be super with all sorts of roast chicken preparations as well as the roast pork typical of the area.