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In his own words (as per Selections de La Viña’s wonderful website), he “look[s] to the land for the forgotten memory of wines from before.” There is something spectral in this desire, that the ghosts of the past wander these same vines simply waiting to be given the opportunity to speak once more. Márquez works with indigenous and nearly-extinct grape varieties, and in this way, this particular bottling is from a local grape of whose history not much is known other than that it grows beautifully here in Montilla. The grape – Montepila – is a thick-skinned, and very dark white-wine grape capable of retaining a quite high concentration of sugar; so, despite being a direct-press, its character is more akin to an orange wine. Complexity, contradiction and, somehow, purity abound in this rare-as-rare-gets bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVinification: \u003c\/em\u003e100% old-vine Montepila grown in albariza (a kind of white-chalky soil endemic to Andalucía) soils 350-450m elevation outside the town of Montilla. Throughout the season, the thick-skinned grapes shrink with the sun and expand with the night’s rain, allowing an extraordinary osmosis of flesh and skin to take place \u003cem\u003ewithin\u003c\/em\u003e the grape itself. The grapes are directly pressed into stainless steel tank where they undergo spontaneous fermentation (ambient yeasts; no temp. control) over the course of 10-15 days. The juice ‘naturally decants’ (breathes, lightly oxidizes) through the winter before being bottled unfined, unfiltered, with no additional SO2. ~12.5%ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTasting: Held up against the light of the sun, the wine in the glass is cloudy, straw-colored and ever-so-slightly orange. Slightly viscous and satisfyingly wiggly in texture. Like tasting a perfect pink-lady apple sprinkled with a dash of cinnamon. Rich but not overwhelmingly so, this still slaps on a hot summer day. 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A fitting impulse given another (small) part of this place’s history happens to be in Don Quixote’s famous short story “Colloquy of The Dogs” (alternatively, “Dialogue of The Dogs”) where Montilla is represented as a place known for its ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecamachas’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e or witches – a kind of fictional setting where the mystical lives alongside the everyday. All of this is to say that Márquez works with indigenous and nearly-extinct grape varieties, for instance, like the grape – Montepila, which is a thick-skinned, and very dark white-wine grape capable of retaining a quite high concentration of sugar. 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