Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto 0426JACKSON The result is a vintage

The result is a vintage Champagne with the broader

cigar wrapper

it splits the difference between mineral tension and Burgundian breadth

with depth

Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto 0426JACKSON The result is a vintageAlmost no fino has an address. Most are blended from Palomino grown wherever it happened to grow, but Inocente comes from a single vineyard: Macharnudo Alto, a high chalk plateau above Jerez long considered one of the great sites in all of Spain. Valdespino ferments it in old oak casks, which virtually nobody does anymore, then ages it under a living blanket of flor yeast in solera. What emerges is bone dry, and that dryness is the entire point. Green