Alvear 3 Miradas Vino de Pueblo 2022

92 points Vinous
The 2022 3 Miradas Vino de Pueblo Pedro Ximénez from Montilla was aged eight months in concrete tinaja under a veil of flor. Aromas of nuts—almond and cashew—combine with a touch of green apple. Dry, chalky and fresh, it is a flavorful white that finishes with a subtle flor-driven note.

100% Pedro Ximénez. Old bush-trained vines, farmed completely sustainably without organic certificaiton, but avoiding all use of harmful fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and irrigation.

3 Miradas Vino de Pueblo is a village wine sourced from five grand cru sites in the Sierra de Montilla de Calidad Superior. Bunches are destemmed and the pressed in a horizontal pneumatic press. The must ferments spontaneously in tinajas, traditional concrete amphora (4,800L).

Alvear is the oldest family-owned winery in Spain, and the oldest winery in Andalucía, making it the original producer of sherry-style wines (vinos generosos) in Andalucía. Alvear launched the 3 Miradas project in 2016 to express the terroir of Montilla-Moriles without the interference of the ageing-intensive process used to produce the classic wines of Montilla. They use a selection of their top "grand cru" vineyards from the Sierra de Montilla de Calidad Superior to make five single vineyard wines and one Vino de Pueblo, a blend of the five sites fermented and aged in tinaja with a short period of aging under velo de flor.