Valdespino Ynocente Fino Single Vineyard Machardudo Alto 375ml HALF BOTTLES

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95 PointsWine & Spirits | Inocente is Valdespinos flagship, a wine from the Macharnudo Alto vineyard, where the soil is pure white albariza. It ferments in 600-liter wooden casks without added yeasts, a practice that has become increasingly rare in Jerez. The intensity of the wines salinity is remarkableiodine and saltcoming together with ripe white fruit, scents of nuts and exotic spices. The structure is dry and austere, like drinking the juice of stones. This will last for a decade in the cellar, but its impossible to hold onto a bottle if theres raw seafood nearby.

94+ PointsRobert Parker |As with many other wines from the Jos Estvez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino’s flagship NV Fino Inocente in magnum, but in this case they have kept the bottles for six months as the wine is from the saca otoo 2016, the autumn bottling from 2016. So the wine is offered with some extra bottle age. It has all that you expect from Inocente, a long aging wine fermented in bota from grapes grown exclusively in the Macharnudo Alto vineyard and bottled with an average age of ten years. All the textbook aromas and flavors are there, coupled with the elegance and mineral intensity the Macharnudo white chalky soils provide. Customers who purchase one of this scarce magnums probably know Inocente already. This will have a longer development in bottle.