Cantalapiedra Majuelo El Espejo La Seca Verdejo 2022

Cantalapiedra Majuelo El Espejo La Seca Verdejo 2022

Cantalapiedra Viticultores
$66.00

Grape: Verdejo
Vintage: 2022
Type: White

Grown at high elevation, this white wine comes from a three-hectare vineyard of verdejo planted in 1999. The Cantalapiedra family farms the site organically, where the vines thrive in cooling clay, marl, and limestone soils. Spontaneous fermentation relies on native wild yeasts in old French oak barrels, keeping modern adjustments out of the process. Aged on fine lees prior to an unfiltered bottling, it captures a crisp mountain identity.

It displays a pale straw hue, releasing a fresh bouquet of citrus peel, white peach, and wild fennel. On the palate, the medium-bodied frame is saline and linear, balancing fruit energy with a serious limestone structure. A gentle creaminess from lees contact rounds out the mouthfeel without heavy weight. A chiseled wave of natural acidity cuts through the texture, maintaining great freshness. It finishes dry, leaving a lingering, chalky mineral trace.

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.