La Riva Macharnudo Blanco 2017

La Riva Macharnudo Blanco 2017 ist ein reinsortiger Palomino Fino verschiedener alter Klone von der Parzelle Macharnudo, die nördlich von Jerez im Landesinneren liegt. Die Weinbergslage Macharnudo hatte früher in den 60iger Jahren ein vergleichbares Renomee wie Romane Conti. Von dieser Lage entsprangen regelmäßig die besten Sherrys und Weißweine aus der Region. Der spanische Weißwein bekam 95 Parker Punkte vom Wine Advocate und Luis Gutierrez schreibt im Wine Advocate: "If the inaugural vintage of the white wine was a revelation, the 2017 Macharnudo Vino Blanco was an earthquake and has to be, hands down, the finest non-fortified white produced in Jerez in recent years. 2017 was a very early harvest, and they picked the grapes from the el Majuelo plot in Macharnudo around the 20th of August. They sun dried the grapes for six to eight hours, then the bunches were pressed in full in a small vertical press, and the juice was put to ferment with all the lees in old Domecq Fino casks. They are looking for the character of the wines from the past (from the 1940s until the 1970s, but their model is more the 1940s), with some rusticity but plenty of energy. The wine was kept in the bota for some 18 months. The barrels were not topped up, but the veil of flor was quite thin, more like the ones from Jura than the normal Jerez ones, and it was also darker. The wine matured in the cellars of Luis Pérez. It's very spicy and with a volatile touch of acetaldehyde, very Jerez in style and a full body. They look for structure, and the freshness is based on the sapidity, the tastiness of the stony palate and the seriousness. It smells of stones, with a notable absence of fruit (perhaps a citrus twist?) and greatly marked by the chalky soils. It's 14% natural alcohol—from concentration—that feels very integrated and balanced in an XL way. It has the nose of a Fino, with a lot of flor character; it's still young (the spices should grow with time in bottle) and has the rotund Macharnudo palate. Awesome! They managed to produce 1,500 bottles of this elixir. It was bottled in May 2019."

2016 gründet Ramiro Ibañez mit seinem langjährigen Freund und Weggefährten Willy Perez die Bodegas de La Riva. Hierfür erwerben Sie die traditionsreiche Bodega M. Ant. De La Riva deren Ursprünge in Andalusien bis in das 18 Jhdt. zurückgehen. Hier verwirklichen Sie Projekte rund um den Sherry, die in ihren eigenen Bodegas nicht möglich sind. Nebenbei arbeiten Sie beide an einem umfangreichen Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte in der D.O. Jerez und kennen sich daher bestens aus in der Region. Sie verkosten sich durch viele traditionsreiche Bodegas und entdecken daher so manche vergessene Schätze, die Sie uns hier präsentieren.