Jorge Ordonez Nisia Verdejo Old Vines 2025 750ml

A well-meshed wine, supple and creamy on the palate, with a succulent and refreshing frame of acidity to the layered flavors of creamed white cherry, nectarine, macadamia nut and honeysuckle. Lightly spiced finish. Drink now.

The grapes are hand harvested, sorted rigorously, and pressed by a small pneumatic press. The must is cold settled, and 60% of the volume is racked into large format, 500L & 600L Burgundian oak puncheons and demi-muids for fermentation. These barrels are all third use through older neutral barrels from the foundation of the winery in 2011. The remaining 40% of the must remains in stainless steel for fermentation. The fermentation is carried out and the wine remains on the lees for 6-8 months after the fermentation, depending on the harvest and vintage conditions. Our goal stylistically is to produce serious, age worth Verdejo from Rueda. Nisia is a wine that will blossom in the bottle and although it is lively and fresh upon release, will develop tremendous secondary and tertiary characteristics due to the sur lie ageing and barrel fermentation. Our use of neutral barrels for the fermentation allows a fine micro-oxygenation of the wine, which balances out the reductive conditions created by sur lie ageing. Simply, the care for our old, original clone Verdejo vineyards and serious winemaking produce an atypical and uncommonly serious Verdejo.