Valdespino Quina Aperitivo Jerezano EARHARDT The result is joyful and

The result is joyful and a little wild

and Aux Ormes

supple style with the gravelly Graves signature

which leaves a faint prickle of CO2 and a wine built on crunch rather than tannic architecture

Le Mont Aimé and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger

Valdespino Quina Aperitivo Jerezano EARHARDT The result is joyful andBefore quinine ended up in tonic water, it went into wine. Quina is that older tradition: a Jerez wine base, fortified and steeped with cinchona bark and a cast of botanicals until it turns bittersweet and pleasantly medicinal. Valdespino's version comes from one of the oldest houses in Jerez and it tastes like it, with real sherry character underneath the bitterness, all dried fruit and nutty depth, and a quinine edge that snaps the whole thing back