Ramiro Ibanez Ube Miraflores Blanco 2024 NO20230816 Secondary fermentation and further aging

Secondary fermentation and further aging on the lees for 30 months

The good stuff comes off granite

and most of what gets made is drunk on the spot by people on holiday on the Italian Riviera

Aged for 14 days in Cognac and Sauterne barrels

an extremely bright nose of poached apples and pears is complimented by a mineral backbone with a long and elegant finish

Ramiro Ibanez Ube Miraflores Blanco 2024 NO20230816 Secondary fermentation and further agingThis is the wine that ended the argument about whether Palomino is a boring grape. Ramiro Ibanez calls his bodega an albarizatorio a laboratory for the white chalk soil of Sanlucar and Miraflores is his benchmark bottling, drawn from old vines, some 80 to 90 years old, spread across several plots of albariza on the Atlantic edge of town. It's Palomino made as a table wine: no fortification, whole cluster pressed, fermented spontaneously in old Jerez