Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 this Blanc de Blancs is

this Blanc de Blancs is fermented in stainless steel and bottled as Extra Brut to highlight its bright

Pinot Noir and Meunier fill in the flesh

just north of Chicago

BODY: Full of body but not too strong

The 2017 has the texture and weight you'd expect from old Semillon vines on Sauternes soils

Bodegas Ponce Manchuela Albillo Ponce 2023 NO20231101 this Blanc de Blancs isAlbillo is a grape most people have never heard of a rare Spanish white long written off as rustic country wine filler. Juan Antonio Ponce thinks it deserves better. Back home in Manchuela, high on the chalky central plateau, he farms old Albillo vines biodynamically and treats them with the seriousness usually reserved for grand crus: whole cluster fermentation, neutral oak, barely any sulfur. What comes out is pure, textured, and quietly mineral a