Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto CS20230804 harmonious and satin-textured

harmonious and satin-textured

Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stone fruit

A well calibrated balance of floral

about as far from the butter-bomb Chardonnay cliche as California gets

and ripe fruits

Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto CS20230804 harmonious and satin-texturedAlmost no fino has an address. Most are blended from Palomino grown wherever it happened to grow, but Inocente comes from a single vineyard: Macharnudo Alto, a high chalk plateau above Jerez long considered one of the great sites in all of Spain. Valdespino ferments it in old oak casks, which virtually nobody does anymore, then ages it under a living blanket of flor yeast in solera. What emerges is bone dry, and that dryness is the entire point. Green