El Chaparral de Vega Garnacha Sindoa 2022 Erbaluce TLDR: You pay for wines

TLDR: You pay for wines 2 years before you get them

aged in charred

typical of the Chalonnaise

These are the same tuffeau-underlain grounds that produce the Loire's most compelling Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc

a high desert valley in Baja California

El Chaparral de Vega Garnacha Sindoa 2022 Erbaluce TLDR: You pay for winesThe Land Valdizarbe is the northernmost pocket of Navarra, a valley southwest of Pamplona that has grown wine since at least the 1400s, long before Rioja became Spain's default answer for red wine. El Chaparral comes from Nekeas's oldest Garnacha plots, forty separate parcels of goblet trained vines planted between 1890 and 1960, some as old as 115 years. They sit around 400 meters on marl and sandstone soils rich in carbonates, in a continental