Bodegas Frontonio La Loma y Los Santos White 2023

Grape: Macabeo, Garnacha Blanca
Vintage: 2023
Type: White

Sourced from historic, high-altitude plots in Valdejalón, this white field blend comes from dry-farmed old vines rooted in steep slate, limestone, and clay soils. Master of Wine Fernando Mora hand-harvests the co-planted macabeo and garnacha blanca, subjecting the fruit to a natural fermentation with native yeasts in neutral wooden casks and subterranean concrete vessels. The wine ages on its fine lees without new oak to allow the stark hillside minerality and high-elevation climate to take center stage. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur, this is a tactile, deeply textured Spanish white focused on site-driven freshness and tension.

A pale yellow-gold hue opens to aromatics of bruised green apple, white peach, lemon oil, and crushed slate. The palate is dry, dense, and structured, offering focused flavors of yellow plum, raw almond, chamomile, and salt-cured citrus. A driving beam of natural acidity cuts through the wine's broader leesy weight, keeping the mouthfeel crisp, energetic, and linear. It concludes on a long, mouthwatering finish defined by a firm phenolic grip, lingering citrus zest, and a persistent stony minerality.