Belondrade y Lurton 2022

CATA's notes:

• Of color bright straw yellow.
• In nose stone fruits such as white apricot and hay are combined with well-integrated notes of wood.
• In mouth It has a fresh attack, is intense and oily with a long and characteristic Verdejo finish.

Development and Aging

Made with 100% Verdejo grapes, it is fermented and aged in barrels on its lees; ten months in French oak barrels and a minimum of five or six months in the bottle before it goes on the market. spontaneous fermentation it's a wine white with aging from Rueda which is made with Verdejo strains over 30 years old planted in several small plots at 750 meters above sea level on pebble and sand terrain. This way, the diversity of nuances are transmitted to the wine.

Curiosities:

The Belondrade winery was founded in 1994, with the idea of ​​transferring Burgundian techniques to the Verdejo grape. It was during that year that Didier Belondrade, a Frenchman in love with Spain, presented a wine that revolutionized the market for Spanish whites: Belondrade and Lurton. It was a Verdejo fermented and aged in barrels on its lees, elegant, integrated, unctuous and expressing the complexity provided by the different terroirs. Its first production was 10,000 bottles, an amount that 13 years later it has multiplied by eight, reflecting the success of his philosophy