Appellation: Jerez Cuvée: Fino Arroyuelo Colour: White Grapes: Palomino About: Primitivo’s Amontillado is from a solera that dates back 70 or 80 years and has an average age of 15 years. It has an incredible intensity which it wears with a relaxed energy. Vines Location: Matalián vineyard just 500m inland from the cellar in Chiclana Size: … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes Amontillado Fossi
Appellation: Jerez Cuvée: Fino Arroyuelo Colour: White Grapes: Palomino About: Primitivo’s first and main sherry wine. Most Fino is aged around 2 years, while this sees 5 years ageing under flor and you need 5 years to develop such complexity of aroma. As such it’s a steal. If you like sherry. It’s also zero sulfites. … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes Fino Arroyuelo
Appellation: Vino de la Tierra de Cadiz Cuvée: Socaire Oxidativo Colour: White Grapes: Palomino About: Socaire Oxidativo is the oxidative version of the Socaire wine, just 2000 bottles made, the wine is aged two years in barrel without topping up, then two years in inox plus one year in bottle before release. Each of Primitivo’s … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes Socaire Oxidativo
Appellation: Vino de la Tierra de Cadiz Cuvée: Socaire Colour: White Grapes: Palomino About: Socaire also comes from the Matalián vineyard and is named after the two strong headwinds in Chiclana that influence the fruit, being the hot levante and the cooling poniente, or easterly and westerly, both of which winds can blow at 80km/h. … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes Socaire
Appellation: Vino de la Tierra de Cadiz Cuvée: Matalián Colour: White Grapes: Palomino About: Matalián is the name of the vineyard that birthed Primitivo’s first unfortified wine. It’s a classic sherry vineyard of albariza soils and this wine is designed to express the purity of the terroir with minimal intervention. You’ve got all the beautiful … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes Matalián
Who: Primitivo Collantes What: Vin de la Tierra de Cadiz and Sherry Where: Chiclana de la Frontera When: Since 19th century Primitivo Collantes is a small, family-owned, family-run producer in the sherry region of Andalucia. The business is run today by fourth generation Primitivo (all the males are named Primitivo) who’s taking things in a … Continue reading Primitivo Collantes
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Proscrito. Colour: pink. Grapes: Palomino 90%, Garnacha Tintorera 10%. About: an extraordinary pink wine, more of a pale red, from two usually poorly thought-of grapes, here magically transformed into a wine that finds a balance between gravity and levity. Vines Location: from more than a dozen parcels around Serdur and … Continue reading La Perdida Proscrito
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Malas Uvas. Colour: White. Grapes: Palomino 80%, Dona Branca 20%. About: from varietals that can appear neutral at first then marvellously, mysteriously expressive, under-rated by most, highly rated by Nacho and the proof is in the wine. Vines Location: from several parcels of vines near the monastery of Ermitas and … Continue reading La Perdida Malas Uvas
Who: Nacho Gonzalez. What: Vino. Where: Larouco, Valdeorras, Galicia, Spain. When: Since 2013. The Story La Perdida of course means “the lost” and refers to the fact that the vineyards are all tiny parcels, and quite hidden, in more ways than one; they’re off the beaten track and sometimes the other vegetation, grasses and other … Continue reading La Perdida
