Octagono Blanco

Octagono Blanco

WHY WE LOVE IT

  • Octagono wines are natural, unfiltered, fermented with whole grape clusters and skin contact. They are processed and bottled without sulfates.
  • The grapes for the Blanco were sourced from a parcel of 15-year-old vines planted on silty clay-loam soils at 2000 meters above sea level.
  • This is a wine whose aroma, body, appearance and flavor are all synonymous with the essence of sunlight.
  • Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a ladle and a funnel you can anticipate bottle variation here as the process of getting the wines from the buried amphoras to the bottle is not commercial or expedited in any way. All emphasis on raw pure expression here. Get ready for a wild ride!

Varietal Composition: 100% Macabeo

Elaboration: Grapes were destemmed, foot trodden, and fermented and macerated on the skins for 1 to 4 weeks in clay vessels before racking off the skins to rest for 6 months on the lees in the same amphoras before bottling. All Octagono wines are natural, unfiltered, unfined and fermented with whole grape clusters on ambient yeast, and skin contact. SO2 is never added at any point in the process. No sulfites added.

Tasting Notes: Notes of tropical fruit, honeydew melon, and apples. Moderate acidity. Refreshing and friendly to the palate.

PRESS

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PRODUCER BACKGROUND

Marcelo Castro Vera, known as the “Crazy Professor” does things his way. He is a passionate man of strong conviction with a zest for life. After training at a Swiss hotel school and working in hotels in the U.S., he returned to his native land and opened El Nidal, a shipping container hotel in the mountains of Central Mexico. In 2016, he and his wife, Mukasha Dadajonova, founded the Octagono Estate in San Felipe, Guanajuato.

The winery is run mostly by women and directed by winemaker Celia Morales. Marcelo studied old-world wines, questioning the rules of conventional winemaking. He began making the wine intuitively, as natural and honest as possible. It is Marcelo’s vision grounded by Celia’s matter-of-fact practicality that produces highly regarded organic wines.

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