Gomez Nevado "Dorado" Sierra Morena Seco NV

Gomez Nevado "Dorado" Sierra Morena Seco NVFrom the importer: Gomez Nevado has a very unique, beautiful story and history. They are outside the sherry DO, up in Crdoba, three hours north, but still in Andalusia in the Sierra Morena mountains. They started in 1894, and make sherry style wines without fortifying and by using palomino, Pedro Ximenez, and Airen. First, they ferment the grapes in tinaja to make young, organic wine, then move the wine to solera and let it age under flor to make a

and one’s soul

Importer Savio Soares pushed him to make this wine with no additives or adjustments other than ground chestnut flowers (an old homeopathic method) to help stabilize the wine

lemon peel and pear accompanying a long

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helping to pave a path away from bulk fortified wine production and into dry wines made with local grapes and organic farming

Textura organically farms 22 hectares of native Portuguese varieties plated on granitic soils at high elevations

Hints of smoky vanilla and a little black pepper make it particularly grill-friendly but this is a versatile

an area 15 miles east of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at the base of Mont Ventoux

Pierre-O Bonhomme and René Mosse

and a winemaker second

unfiltered rice wine made with organic rice and infused with hydrangea and crysanthemum flowers

Chevarin was selling some of his grapes to a couple of our favorite producers