Valdespino Quina Aperitivo Jerezano EARHARDT including northern Pauillac sites adjacent

including northern Pauillac sites adjacent to Mouton

supple style with the gravelly Graves signature

His work in Cornas has put him at the center of the new generation rewriting what Northern Rhône Syrah can be

and Aux Ormes

Valdespino Quina Aperitivo Jerezano EARHARDT including northern Pauillac sites adjacentBefore quinine ended up in tonic water, it went into wine. Quina is that older tradition: a Jerez wine base, fortified and steeped with cinchona bark and a cast of botanicals until it turns bittersweet and pleasantly medicinal. Valdespino's version comes from one of the oldest houses in Jerez and it tastes like it, with real sherry character underneath the bitterness, all dried fruit and nutty depth, and a quinine edge that snaps the whole thing back