Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto Reasonable Cellar Inspired by a springtime hike

Inspired by a springtime hike in Big Sur - botanical forward Elderflower and Sage

This is California Chardonnay built for crispness rather than butter and oak

Lena Pianta- she loved southern Italian spirits

taut and focused on the palate

Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto Reasonable Cellar Inspired by a springtime hikeAlmost 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