2017 THE WINE LOVE BY GONZALO GONZALO "WHITE YETI" VINO DE ESPANA BLANCO

2017 THE WINE LOVE BY GONZALO GONZALO "WHITE YETI" VINO DE ESPANA BLANCO, SPAIN. A blend of Viura, Guwurztraminer and Riesling. (Organic/Biodynamic, low sulfur)

Viura gets a facelift from Gewurtz and Riesling for a totally fresh and unique white. All the fruit is hand-harvested and fermented with indigenous yeasts and the wine aged in stainless steel tank for eight months before bottling with negligible sulfur. An aromatic nose of floral aromas and exotic fruit lead to a dry and crisp palagte with mineral-rich finish. Exciting and delicious!

Sometimes the name describes it all perfectly. The Wine Love is the aptly named project headed by the two free-spirits, Gonzalo Gonzalo and Mar Mota. Gonzalo Gonzalo was born in Logroño, the capital city of La Rioja, Spain. His family’s vineyards, where he spent a great deal of his childhood, are just west of there in the town of Fuenmayor. He says that he was raised among the grape vines there. After finishing university, where he studied biology and oenology, he was able to travel and come in contact with a number of smaller winemakers in France and Italy, where he learned about new grape varieties and methods of production. Upon returning to Spain, Gonzalo Gonzalo worked as a winemaker in a large, industrial winery briefly before leaving it in 2003 to pursue his personal desire to create natural wines.

Mar Cambero Azcárat, or simply Mar Mota, hails from a family of artisan barrel makers and studied oenology and chemistry at the University of La Rioja. She has been described as, “A lover of fine wines both elegant and subtle, but an enemy of forced reactions and reverse osmosis” and she is a firm believer in the positive merits of biodynamics. It should also be mentioned that she is the designer of these wonderful labels. (Importer)