Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 Pinot Noir and Meunier fill

Pinot Noir and Meunier fill in the flesh

just north of Chicago

peppermint and hyssop

BODY: Full of body but not too strong

Bottled at 100 proof

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 Pinot Noir and Meunier fillAlbillo is a grape most people have never heard of a rare Spanish white long written off as rustic country wine filler. Juan Antonio Ponce thinks it deserves better. Back home in Manchuela, high on the chalky central plateau, he farms old Albillo vines biodynamically and treats them with the seriousness usually reserved for grand crus: whole cluster fermentation, neutral oak, barely any sulfur. What comes out is pure, textured, and quietly mineral a