Cuatro Rayas Vinedos Centenarios, Verdejo 2023, Rueda

Cuatro Rayas Vinedos Centenarios, Verdejo 2023, RuedaThe wine is pale yellow with greenish highlights. A powerful but clean nose, with floral aromas, hints of white flowers, acacia fruit and the typical fennel aromas typical of Verdejo. Really round and unctuous on the palate, with a fatty and lingering mouthfeel and a lovely floral finish.

Local shop keepers and artist benefit from the visiting tourists drawn to the picturesque village

All grapes are picked by hand at optimal phenolic ripeness

whose snow-topped peak towers majestically over the surrounding vineyards

The soils are silty clay and full of large stones deposited by mountain glaciers (Peyros means stony in Gascon)

Stolichnaya Vodka undergoes a triple distillation and quadruple filtration process preserving a centuries-old production method

This is fine Armagnac indeed

After fermentation the wine is aged in large oak vats and then in cement tanks

making no doubt utterly brilliant yet wildly expensive wines (think £3500 a pop)

Deep ruby red in colour

the Chardonnay grapes are specifically selected for their vibrancy and freshness

They finally found their spot in the ‘true’ north coast of California – the littoral (coastal) zones of Sonoma and Mendocino Counties

A delightful 30-hectare property owned and run by the expert oenologist Monsieur Roc Anglade