Vejer de la Frontera Province of Cádiz
A tiny winery in the hamlet of La Patría, on a slope looking out to the Atlantic, built by Ute Mergner and Hans Nerlinger when they left Germany knowing nothing about wine. Some four thousand organic bottles a year, among them the first sparkling rosé made in Vejer.
View wineryThree and a half hectares of dark albariza a step from the sea, given over mainly to reviving organically farmed Tintilla de Rota, with some Palomino and Chardonnay. It is a family vineyard and it welcomes visitors, with dinner among the vines.
View wineryA family vineyard a stone’s throw from La Jara beach in Sanlúcar, where the grandchildren of Paco García, a farmer from the area, make what the house presents as the first red wine of Sanlúcar: organic Petit Verdot, Tannat and Tintilla de Rota. They also make a white from Balbaína Palomino fermented in amphora.
View winerySan José del Valle Province of Cádiz
An 1881 cortijo in San José del Valle where the Rebuelta González brothers, of the fifth generation of González Byass, began making Tierra de Cádiz reds in 2012 in the old olive mill. On albariza they grow Palomino, Tintilla de Rota, Syrah, Petit Verdot and Merlot, and make the El Pinto range with the British importer Les Caves de Pyrène.
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A biodynamic alliance between Sanlúcar-born Alejandro Muchada and Champenois David Léclapart: Palomino and Moscatel whites from the pago Miraflores, unfortified and without a DO.
View wineryA natural white from the Los Terrajos vineyards in Grazalema, at 850 metres: among the highest in the province. Ángel Luis Gutiérrez has made it since 2017 from old vines of almost forgotten varieties, unfiltered, unfined and with no added sulphites, and each vintage comes to around a thousand bottles.
View wineryA nineteenth-century vineyard house in Balbaína Alta with a hectare of vines, run by Ángela Adrover and Ana Luque. It ages its own organic wines and doubles as a rural guesthouse.
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