Altxor Getariako Txakolina Blanco 2024 Vintage:2024 and chicken drippings

and chicken drippings

tending ancient vines in Monforte d'Alba

Sacred Shore's single vineyard Albarino has leveled up

grown at thousands of feet above sea level

elderberry

Altxor Getariako Txakolina Blanco 2024 Vintage:2024 and chicken drippingsIt rains quite a bit in Basque Country. This corner of Spains north coast is measured by the Bay of Biscay, a corner of the Atlantic especially famous for storms. It is therefore difficult to grow grapes organically here. That the folks at Altxor do so is refreshing, though generally speaking everything about Txakoli from Getaria is refreshing. This signature Basque wine is just unlike anything else in Spain; this is probably the most refreshing wine