Muchada-Leclapart Etoile 2022

Muchada-Leclapart is the meeting of Marco Antonio Muchada's Andalusian roots and David Leclapart's Champagne sensibility. Based in Sanlucar de Barrameda, the project works old Palomino vines on albariza soils, farming biodynamically and seeking still white wines that express the chalk, Atlantic wind and light of Jerez country without fortification. The cellar work is deliberately simple: native fermentations, no heavy oak, long lees contact and very low additions. These wines helped redefine what Palomino could be outside the Sherry category, showing salinity, texture and luminous restraint rather than oxidative power.