Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST The Souverain bottling by Henriot

The Souverain bottling by Henriot is made up of half chardonnay

A Champagne of genuine substance and elegance

and almost nobody in California plants it

But the Réserve Perpétuelle Non Dosé is the bottle to know if you want to understand how the house thinks

Alberto Orte Cadiz Tintilla Vara y Pulgar 2022 070226ROBUST The Souverain bottling by HenriotTintilla de Rota was nearly extinct, a native red grape of the Cadiz coast all but plowed under in sherry country until Alberto Orte went looking for the last old vines. What he found makes a wine that has almost nothing to do with what you'd expect from southern Spain: dark, savory, and salt licked, grown on the same bright albariza chalk that gives fino its lift. Orte ferments with native yeasts, some whole clusters, and foot treading, then ages it