Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 and a touch of rye

and a touch of rye bread

especially when considering the exhausting effort made to craft such an inexpensive sparkler from one of the Loire Valley’s greatest terroirs

it's a Sancerre family's read on their neighbor's terroir

Nassif Family Reserve is a blend of 50% 14-year light whiskey from MGP and 50% 3-year 10-month bourye (a blend of 36 rye bourbon and 95 rye distillate aged together in new oak)

Bordeaux Blanc that drinks like a white Burgundy in cool sunglasses

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 and a touch of ryeTintilla 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