Bodegas de Forlong Palomino 2023
The Wine
Palomino sourced from Puerto de Santa Maria (Pago Balbaina Baja), where their bodega is situated. Hand-picked at night, the grapes are chilled to 6º for a day or two, then rigorously sorted, destemmed and pressed into stainless steel vats to ferment. The Blanco is spontaneously fermented long and cool at 15 degrees over 3 weeks, retaining great perfume, and then aged for 6 months on fine lees in stainless steel before bottling un-fined. Viticulture is organic and follows biodynamic preparations.
The wine is glyceric, honey-floral, with a nice mineral lick to close. The Palomino gives a characteristic ‘grass liquor’ feel. A lovely pale yellow with a flash of green, it’s really brilliant in the glass. Peach, mandarin, wild hay, barley water, appleskin and sea spray. It’s classical Palomino-in-Albariza. Sandy, deeply textured, tangy, savoury, a blue steel whisper … expressive, relaxed, balanced, salt tang fresh with heaps of mid-palate sapidity.
The Details
Variety - Palomino
Country - Spain
Region - Jerez
Extra - Cork
Year - 2023
Volume - 750ml
About the Wine Maker
We are a small winery, made reality by two young people, who began their journey in 2007 with the purchase of the land called "El olivar de Forlón", recovering the old vineyard plantation, which had been lost over the years, like the final G in the name of its last owner (Peter Furlong), thus finally giving life to Forlong.
We work the entire vineyard in organic, 14 hectares in two parcels; Pago de Balbaína Baja (Palomino grape- Pedro Ximénez grape-Syrah grape-Merlot grape and Tintilla de Rota grape) and Pago de Grañina-Corrales (Palomino grape) both located in the municipality of El Puerto de Santa María.
We make wines with love, maintaining the essence of the land, always with feet stained in our albariza soil (limestone based soil), and with a heart that pumps the fruit of our work, which translates into approximately 40.000 bottles of different types of white, red, rosé and sparkling wines of vintage.
