Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto CS20230804 Megaphone is the Brunier family's

Megaphone is the Brunier family's Ventoux project — a step up the ladder from their Pigeoulet table red but still firmly in everyday-drinking territory

A well calibrated balance of floral

Le Sedimentaire is Atomique3's counterpoint to Le Basalt—same grape

The 2020 vintage concentrated what ripened

Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stone fruit

Valdespino Fino Sherry Inocente Macharnudo Alto CS20230804 Megaphone is the Brunier family'sAlmost no fino has an address. Most are blended from Palomino grown wherever it happened to grow, but Inocente comes from a single vineyard: Macharnudo Alto, a high chalk plateau above Jerez long considered one of the great sites in all of Spain. Valdespino ferments it in old oak casks, which virtually nobody does anymore, then ages it under a living blanket of flor yeast in solera. What emerges is bone dry, and that dryness is the entire point. Green