Cantalapiedra VDT Castilla y Leon Cantayano La Seca Verdejo 2023

Cantalapiedra VDT Castilla y Leon Cantayano La Seca Verdejo 2023

Cantalapiedra Viticultores
$28.00

Grape: Verdejo
Vintage: 2023
Type: White

All verdejo From organically farmed vines that are 20-30 years old in the La Seca area. The vines are planted on sandy soil with abundant pebbles over marl and limestone. The grapes were destemmed and pressed with a pneumatic press into about 80% stainless steel tanks and 20% used French oak barrels, where the juice settled and fermented at about 20 degrees Celsius. The wine completed fermentation and malolactic conversion and rested for 12 months on the lees before bottling without fining or filtering. On the nose, Cantayano shows stone fruit, apple, and herbaceous notes, while the palate is surprising dense, with a beautiful seam of acidity.

Cantalapiedra Viticultores is located in La Seca, a village in the heart of Spain's Rueda appellation. The estate is run by father-and-son team Isaac and Manuel Cantalapiedra, with Manuel, a classically trained pianist, now leading the winemaking. They are a vanguard of minimal intervention winemaking in a region dominated by conventional producers. While Rueda is known for a consistent style of Verdejo, Cantalapiedra focuses on producing single-vineyard bottlings that highlight the unique differences in their terroirs. In the cellar, they use wild yeasts for fermentation and add minimal to no sulfur, relying on natural processes to express the character of their vineyards.