Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST A Champagne of genuine substance

A Champagne of genuine substance and elegance

But the Réserve Perpétuelle Non Dosé is the bottle to know if you want to understand how the house thinks

or in a spritz

offering flavors of baked pear

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST A Champagne of genuine substanceTintilla de Rota was nearly extinct, a native red grape of the Cadiz coast all but plowed under in sherry country until Alberto Orte went looking for the last old vines. What he found makes a wine that has almost nothing to do with what you'd expect from southern Spain: dark, savory, and salt licked, grown on the same bright albariza chalk that gives fino its lift. Orte ferments with native yeasts, some whole clusters, and foot treading, then ages it