Highlights
Referred to by many Americans as "Gru-Ve," this white variety is nearly synonymous with Austrian wine. It's becoming wildly popular at the moment, especially compared to its obscure origins: it's known as the ultimate food wine for its great minerality and appealing freshness. The wines are consistent and eminently drinkable at the low end, and, on the premium side of things, full-bodied, long-lived, world-class whites.
The 2022 growing seasons started pretty perfectly, with great weather and no heat spikes. All of that changed later in the season, but these grapes in this wine were picked long before that happened. Albariño came in August 19th and Chenin Blanc came in August 25th. Both vineyards were hand-picked and whole cluster pressed, with no skin contact. We separated the juice into light and hard press fractions which each saw a 10ppm sulfur addition. After settling for a day, we racked each fraction to a new tank for fermentation and vinified separately. The wines started fermenting naturally after about seven days and we transferred the separate varieties to stainless steel vessels for fermentation. We aged the individual wines on light lees for eight months, then we racked and blended the wines a couple of weeks before canning. The wine was not fined, but we decided to filter it because when you are drinking wine out of a can, you want that last sip to be as good as the first.
Tasting Notes
Apricot, peach, jasmine, orange blossom; crisp, clean finish
- BrandLas Jaras
- TypeRose Wine
- Size250ml
- ABV 11.4%
- Winemaking Unfiltered or unfined
- Winemaking Natural
- SKU 210000029071
Grapes & winemaking
- Grapes
- 90% Chenin Blanc, 10% Albariño
- Farming
- Organically farmed
- Winemaking
- Natural wine ; Unfined ; Filtered
- Aging
- Individual wines aged eight months on light lees before blending