De le Riva Macharnudo San Cayetano 2024
Vino de Pasto
Spain, Spain
Regular price£306.00
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Arriving: Late 2025
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| Style: White | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: % | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2024 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2035 |
| Grapes: 100% Palomino Fino | |
Critic scores
98 JS, 96 JA, 95 DC, 95 DB, 95 GM
Critic reviews
"This opens with iodine, crusted sea salt and a subtle touch of lime, wrapped in delicate floral notes. The palate is saline and expansive, yet ample and incisive, with a deep texture. There’s a solid and angular, almost architectural sense of salinity here, layered and persistent. One of the most compelling expressions of this style. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, September 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Hold on to your hats, this is grippy, slim, intense, a slow burn white that reminds you just how brilliant the Palomino grape can be. Gunsmoke reduction on the opening, juicy and fleshy but so understated, soy, sea spray, white pear, grilled almonds, with a touch of Xeres tang. Limestone soils, 3.35ha, harvest August 30, fermented in 615l sherry butts, no temperature control, one year of flor ageing. From the brilliant De La Riva winery, with owners and winemakers Willy Perez and Ramiro Ibanez."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Iodine and saltiness on the nose, really smells of the ocean - like an oyster shack with orange and lemon scents alongside white pepper and pears. Wild herbal elements with brisk acidity and a deep salty core - olive tapenade and lots of toasted nuts. Quite a singular style with some smokey reduction and a minerality that just lasts and lasts. Director Luis Pérez, winemakers Ramiro Ibáñez and Willy Pérez."
Georgina Hindle, July 2025, Decanter.com
"(Vino di Pasto; 100% Palomino Fino planted in 1988 on 3.35 hectares of Albariza, a very pure chalky soil formed by the siliceous skeletons of microscopic diatom algae; released after one year of flor aging; 13.5% alcohol; around 6000 bottles). Utterly unique! This is an unfortified Palomino and it comes from the famous Macharnudo vineyard in Jerez. To taste this is to believe! An incredible wine once again and a wine of massive vertical lift – the vinous equivalent of Elon Musk’s fantasy spaceship! Cordite. Flint. Whetstone. Struck match. Confit grapefruit rind. Citrus and almond stone, walnut shell too. A touch of leather and almost a hint of red berry fruits. White field flowers. Confit melon and almost the profile on the palate of a Sauternes from which all the residual sugar has been extracted and discarded. I’m throwing a lot of descriptors around here, but even together they fail really to capture the essence of this. A wine that is very difficult to describe. You’re going to have to trust me, it’s great!"
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com
James Suckling, September 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Hold on to your hats, this is grippy, slim, intense, a slow burn white that reminds you just how brilliant the Palomino grape can be. Gunsmoke reduction on the opening, juicy and fleshy but so understated, soy, sea spray, white pear, grilled almonds, with a touch of Xeres tang. Limestone soils, 3.35ha, harvest August 30, fermented in 615l sherry butts, no temperature control, one year of flor ageing. From the brilliant De La Riva winery, with owners and winemakers Willy Perez and Ramiro Ibanez."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Iodine and saltiness on the nose, really smells of the ocean - like an oyster shack with orange and lemon scents alongside white pepper and pears. Wild herbal elements with brisk acidity and a deep salty core - olive tapenade and lots of toasted nuts. Quite a singular style with some smokey reduction and a minerality that just lasts and lasts. Director Luis Pérez, winemakers Ramiro Ibáñez and Willy Pérez."
Georgina Hindle, July 2025, Decanter.com
"(Vino di Pasto; 100% Palomino Fino planted in 1988 on 3.35 hectares of Albariza, a very pure chalky soil formed by the siliceous skeletons of microscopic diatom algae; released after one year of flor aging; 13.5% alcohol; around 6000 bottles). Utterly unique! This is an unfortified Palomino and it comes from the famous Macharnudo vineyard in Jerez. To taste this is to believe! An incredible wine once again and a wine of massive vertical lift – the vinous equivalent of Elon Musk’s fantasy spaceship! Cordite. Flint. Whetstone. Struck match. Confit grapefruit rind. Citrus and almond stone, walnut shell too. A touch of leather and almost a hint of red berry fruits. White field flowers. Confit melon and almost the profile on the palate of a Sauternes from which all the residual sugar has been extracted and discarded. I’m throwing a lot of descriptors around here, but even together they fail really to capture the essence of this. A wine that is very difficult to describe. You’re going to have to trust me, it’s great!"
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com