Jose Gil, El Bardallo Vintage:2022 The palate is precise with

The palate is precise with a silver bead of acidity

The 2023 Tolpuddle Chardonnay is a steely and tense expression that delivers powerful and highly focussed aromas of citrus and florals with a peach skin highlight

with earthy base notes

Very good quality here and the influence of the 1er is evident

A spicy and very Vosne-like nose freely offers up its aromas of black pinot fruit

Jose Gil, El Bardallo Vintage:2022 The palate is precise withAs with La Canoca, the 2022 El Bardallo changes from a single vineyard to a paraje (lieu dit) wine and includes more plots in the same place to increase the volume of wine produced. It's Tempranillo with some 10% white grapes, mostly Viura. It fermented with some whole cluster fruit and indigenous yeasts and matured in 500 and 600 liter barrels. It's quite fruit driven, aromatic and reminiscent of the old carbonic fermentation reds matured in barrel,