Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 Two Blondes is Andrew Will's

Two Blondes is Andrew Will's estate vineyard outside Zillah in the Yakima Valley

it's a Sancerre family's read on their neighbor's terroir

California Grenache with the volume turned down and the energy turned up

reflecting an harmonious evolution of the wine

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 NO20231025 Two Blondes is Andrew Will'sTintilla de Rota was nearly extinct, a native red grape of the Cadiz coast all but plowed under in sherry country until Alberto Orte went looking for the last old vines. What he found makes a wine that has almost nothing to do with what you'd expect from southern Spain: dark, savory, and salt licked, grown on the same bright albariza chalk that gives fino its lift. Orte ferments with native yeasts, some whole clusters, and foot treading, then ages it