Alberto Orte, Escalada do Sil Tinto 2020

Whole cluster maceration for 28 days followed by fermentation. Once fermentation has taken place, the wine is pressed and aged in 500 liter French oak barrels for 15 months. After one month of natural decantation, the wine is gently filtered then bottled.

Alberto Orte was born in Madrid and now lives in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) with his family. Alberto still only aged 24, co-founded the well regarded American Spanish specialist wine importer, Ole and Obrigado. In 2003, Patrick and Alberto decided to establish another company that was directly involved in the production of wine in different areas of Spain, so they created the Vinos Atlantico, whose fundamental mission is to find great vineyard-sites and indigenous varietals from old vines in high elevation vineyards tended in low yielding, balanced soil which will be used as the raw material to handcraft their wines.

A farmer, producer and historian all in one, he has successfully identified over 200 and counting old clones of Palomino Fino and Palomino Jerez and revived and re-planted over 20 grape varieties on the brink of extinction. The importance of this work cannot be under estimated.