Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 The extended cool fall enabled

The extended cool fall enabled ripe varietal character alongside pronounced acidity and the salt-tinged complexity that devotees crave

sustainably harvested winged kelp

Bottled at 100 proof

just north of Chicago

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 The extended cool fall enabledAlbillo 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