White
Mundo Revés — Sauvignon Blanc Les Quartz 2023
95 pts Tim AtkinUngrafted Sauvignon Blanc from the sandy loam soils of Gualtallary, at 1,200 m: fermented on its skins in a new 500 L barrel, then nine months on the lees in that same barrel. Unfiltered. Cuvées spéciales is a series of very exclusive batches, made using special winemaking techniques (skin contact, barrel fermentation) and aged in second-passage oak barrels.
- Grape
- Sauvignon Blanc
- G.I.
- Gualtallary
- Vintage
- 2023
- Format
- 750 ml bottle
Critics’ scores
- 95Tim AtkinWhite Wine Discovery of the Year 2024
Technical sheet
- Variety
- 100 % Sauvignon blanc
- Vine age
- 25 years old
- Yield
- 8000 kg per ha
- First vintage
- 2023
- Appellation
- Ungrafted vines on Gualtallary’s sandy loam soils (Uco Valley), at 1,200 m high, espalier vineyard. Quartz is the main crystal composing the sands of this wine’s terroir.
- Harvest and winemaking
- Manual harvesting and post-harvest selection during the last week of February. Indigenous yeasts. Skin-contact fermentation in a new 500 L French oak barrel. Aged for 9 months on the lees inside that same barrel, with regular bâtonnage. Bottled without filtering.