Valdespino Manzanilla La Especial in Rama 2016

The 2016 Manzanilla La Especial Pago Miraflores is a rare single-harvest Manzanilla with a deep golden color and a more developed, complex and slightly oxidative nose, corresponding to an older non-vintage Manzanilla dynamic blend of vintages, because not being blended with younger wines means the wine has a faster development. The wine comes from 70-year-old vines in Pago Miraflores very close to the sea. It fermented in old botas and has concentration through evaporation and 15.5% alcohol, with pungent notes of esparto grass, herbs, sea breeze, saltpeter and wet chalk. They had 30 butts (botas), and they selected 12 to showcase the terroir from Miraflores, complex, subtle and elegant, bottled unfiltered (en rama). It comes in a Rhine bottle. It's a superb white wine. 6,168 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2024.