Muchada-Leclapart Lumiere 2022

Muchada-Leclapart Lumiere 2022

Muchada-Leclapart
$56.00

Grape: Palomino
Vintage: 2022
Type: White

Muchada-Leclapart, a joint venture by Alejandro Muchada from Sanlucar de Barrameda, and David Leclapart, a pioneer of natural viticulture in Champagne. White wines without fortification, flor or cask aging. All vineyards are biodynamic, and estate owned, only 4 hectares with 3 of them being from a 60 y.p. masal selection Palomino. Lumiere comes from the parcel La Platera vieja (1.2 hectares) within the Pago of Miraflores. The vines are all Palomino Fino with a variety of clones with and average age in excess of 65 years old. The grapes were picked in mid-August with lowish alcohol, 11.5%, and good freshness (3.4 pH and 4.4 grams of acidity) and fermented in used 225-liter French oak barrels with indigenous yeasts, then the wine was kept in tank with full lees for 11 months. This is the palest and cloudiest of the five wines, but it's also the one with more purity, elegance and subtleness. It has delicate aromas of dried flowers, herbs and spice. It has a vibrant palate with very good intensity, precise, clean and detailed, with a long lingering finish with the sappy character of the soils.

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.