{"title":"The Producers Table: Spain","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA lot of wine gets made in Spain. A lot of it tastes the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis week we're offering four bottles that have nothing to do with that Spain. They come from four different corners of the country, four different climates and soils, four producers who are defining what Spanish wine looks like when someone actually pays attention to where they are. While we love a great Ribera or Rioja, these wines are a great way to tour Spain without ever leaving town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuy single bottles or mix and match all four. Any 6 saves 10%, any 12 saves 15%, applied automatically online and in store.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22023 Raventos i Blanc de Blancs  $26\u003cbr\u003e2024 Txakolina Rose, Gaintza $24\u003cbr\u003e2022 Petalos, Descendientes de J. 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Curro came out of Galicia, where he spent years making some of the most precise natural wines in Spain at Fedellos do Couto. That precision is evident here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe 2021 is a cool-vintage wine. Perfumed and structured, with violets, red plum, and dried strawberry, finishing with the chalky grip that comes from old roots in granite. It drinks like something that costs considerably more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bon Vin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46406258098349,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/5591\/0573\/files\/UvasdeLaIra.jpg?v=1782228477"},{"product_id":"2022-petalos-descendientews-de-j-palacios","title":"2022 Petalos, Descendientes de J. Palacios","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWhen Álvaro Palacios and his nephew Ricardo Pérez arrived in Bierzo in the late 1990s, they found a region nobody was paying attention to and a grape, Mencía, that almost no one outside Spain could name. They settled in Corullón, a small town on the western edge of the appellation, where the soils are schist and the old vines cling to steep hillsides that look like transplanted Burgundy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003ePétalos was designed as the entry point to Bierzo, built from old-vine Mencía from across the western edge of the appellation, co-fermented with small amounts of the traditional white and red varieties the old vineyards always contained. The 2022 spent 10 months in barrel. 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Gaintza makes their rosé from an equal split of Beltza and Hondarrabi Zuri, the white grape of the region, from vines planted in 1958 on clay and limestone soils directly above the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe wine is fermented slowly in stainless steel over 45 days, with no malolactic conversion, bottled at zero degrees to preserve the natural spritz. The result is 11% alcohol, bone dry, and alive with red cherry, cranberry, and sea salt. Serve it cold. Pour from height if you want to release the fizz properly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46406297780397,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/5591\/0573\/files\/TxakolinaRose_Gaintza.jpg?v=1782228924"},{"product_id":"2023-raventos-i-blanc-de-blancs","title":"2023 Raventos i Blanc de Blancs","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eIn 2012, the Raventós family walked away from the Cava DO. Twenty-one generations of winemaking on this land, and they decided the appellation no longer reflected what they were doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe Conca del Riu Anoia sits over an ancient seabed. The soils are built on marine fossils and limestone left behind when the Mediterranean retreated 16 million years ago. Pepe Raventós farms the entire estate biodynamically, using sheep for grass control, farm-produced compost, and indigenous varieties only. Xarel·lo, Macabeu, Parellada, and Malvasia de Sitges. No foreign grapes allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe 2023 Blanc de Blancs spent 18 months on the lees. It is chalky, saline, and dry, with herbs, dried hay, and citrus peel. The bubbles are fine and persistent. 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