2024 Alfredo Egia 'Izaki', Bizkaiko Txakolina, Spain Weingut Hermann Ludes and dried bonito with a

and dried bonito with a pleasant bitterness lingering on the finish

lifted elegant nebbiolo

and a bold

A library release received from the icnoic Santa Cruz winery

planted at 150m altitude on silty loam soils with silica

2024 Alfredo Egia 'Izaki', Bizkaiko Txakolina, Spain Weingut Hermann Ludes and dried bonito with aThis is Alfredo's newest wine, the first vintage being 2020 coming from a blend of vineyard of Izkiriota Txikia and Hondarrabi Zerratia. The sites all become officially biodynamic in 2021. Less of an entry wine in the lineup and more of a little sibling to his flagship Rebel Rebel with half of the wine seeing the same regimen with wood (see below) and the other half being raised in tank. And unlike rebel rebel, bottled with a kiss of sulfur.