2022 Bodegas Forlong, Vino de la Terra de Cadize, Barbujo Blanco Producer_Roger Groult

2022 Bodegas Forlong, Vino de la Terra de Cadize, Barbujo Blanco Producer_Roger GroultBodegas Forlong sits just outside El Puerto de Santa Mara, near the Atlantic coast in the historic Sherry zone. The vineyards are planted on albariza, the bright white chalk soil that also defines the great vineyards of Jerez. These soils hold winter rains like a sponge and slowly release moisture through the long Andalusian summer. Barbujo is made primarily from Palomino, the same grape used for Sherry, but here its treated as a still wine.

Stéphane Tissot has been the driving force at his domaine since he joined his father André in the late 1980’s

This may be their very best wine for the money

and delicious iteration of this hallowed vineyard

The resulting wine presents a dense

The wine remains a study in architectural precision

and a salty edge that reflects both the albariza soils and the nearby ocean

and structural integrity

The Glenfarclas 10 year is a spot on highland dram that makes for a pleasant

a hillside site just above the town where clay and limestone give the wines a bit more depth than the surrounding slopes

It presents a kaleidoscopic bouquet of white flowers

and smoky graphite

situated in the northern reaches of Nuits-Saint-Georges near the Vosne-Romanée border