2022 Rodrigo Mendez "Cies" Albariño, Rias Baixas, SpainABOUT THIS WINE Ces is one of winemaker Rodrigo Mendez's smallest production wines, it reflects a historical approach to Albario from the Salns zone, where his family has produced wine for 5 generations in and around the village of Meao. Ces is fermented with its own indigenous yeast and then partially aged in old wooden vessels without controlling the temperaturethis was the way all Albario wines were made prior to the 1980s, when stainless steel

after the first two vintages he oversaw the construction of the winery in 1982 – the construction began in June of that year with the plan for the winery to handle the harvest later that year (today that would never happen in the valley with permitting – everything moves slower)

chewy tannins as it builds to a long

Chalmers purchased an 80- hectare plot in the northern portion Heathcote

one can see the effect that such treatment creates

and then Louis Eschenauer

Elevage in steel with a small amount of neutral Austrian oak

Ernesto Picollo effortlessly balances the minerally essence of Gavi with a deep

Terraced vineyards line the steep

In the 1980s

8% alcohol even in a riper vintage like 2014

The young vines for our Chardonnay come from the center of the Languedoc around the terroir of Beziers

and Dietmar