Horacio Calvente Dry Moscatel

“The wine has a powerful and focused fruit expression… where a most harmonious balance is crowned on the finish by the characteristic bitterness of dry-fermented Moscatel.” 1001 wines To try before you Die.

Glorious dry Muscats may be rare as hen’s teeth but they do exist. This idiosyncratic tour de force is certainly one of them.

There are some wines that just put a smile on your face. This may sound like a whimsical quality in wine, but let’s face it, some wines just have it and most wines don’t. Horacio Calvente’s dry Moscatel has it in spades. It comes with a brilliant story, too. A wine-mad farmer from the ancient Moorish village of Jete sets out to recover an almost extinct wine style from neglected parcel of old vine Moscatel planted high – 1000m high - in the Sierra Nevada, the mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean. His first vintage in 1992 yields just 700 bottles which are mostly distributed amongst family and friends. Two decades on and the produce of this unique... read more

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Region:

Andalusia

Producer:

Bogegas H. Calvente

Bodegas Calvente Guindalera Blanco 2010

The 2010 La Guindalera is dry, aromatic, powdery, mineral, wildly distinctive white that is imbued with citric freshness. The aromas leaping from the glass offer such a cornucopia of scents it's... read more

Product Code: 9177-750

Bottle size 750ml

Buy a straight or mixed dozen get 10% off!

$ 39.00 Single bottle price

$ 35.10 Mixed or straight dozens