2024 Alfredo Egia 'Izaki', Bizkaiko Txakolina, Spain Weingut Hermann Ludes lifted elegant nebbiolo

lifted elegant nebbiolo

planted at 150m altitude on silty loam soils with silica

The juices are then racked to old Burgundian barrels for élevage

32 of which are under vine

From Mosel Fine Wine: The 2022er Trarbach Burgberg Riesling Kabinett was made from early harvested fruit around 83° Oechsle and was fermented down to fruity-styled levels of residual sugar

2024 Alfredo Egia 'Izaki', Bizkaiko Txakolina, Spain Weingut Hermann Ludes lifted elegant nebbioloThis is Alfredo's newest wine, the first vintage being 2020 coming from a blend of vineyard of Izkiriota Txikia and Hondarrabi Zerratia. The sites all become officially biodynamic in 2021. Less of an entry wine in the lineup and more of a little sibling to his flagship Rebel Rebel with half of the wine seeing the same regimen with wood (see below) and the other half being raised in tank. And unlike rebel rebel, bottled with a kiss of sulfur.