Barco Del Corneta, Verdejo, Castilla y Leon, Spain

Who - Beatriz Herranz, Barco del Corneta
Where - Rueda, Castilla y Leon, Spain
What - White Wine - Verdejo
When -
How - Organic, 24 hours cold maceration, slow press, fermentation with native yeasts in oak barrels, matured for further eight months on lees in 300L French oak, soft filtration, minimal clarification, vegan

Beatriz Herranz has put her heart and soul into truly getting to know Verdejo. From small beginnings in 2008, planting 5 hectares of Verdejo on old family land in the village of Seca, two years later she loaded up a van with their first harvest, squeezed in some friends and took them to Gredos to make 300 bottles of her first wine. Since she has bought plots of old vines in nearby villages and has her own space in La Seca allowing her project to grow. The benign climate allows her to work organically in the vineyards. She describes her wines as 'swimming against the current'.

This Verdejo is taken from a single old family vineyard that Beatriz has regenerated in La Seca, Vallalodid which is 750m above sea level and on sandy and stony soil.

Silky, chalky and complex.