Callejuela 'Blanco de Hornillos'
Ripe white pear and apple and also chamomile (similar to a Manzanilla or Fino Sherry)
Ripe and salty, with a slightly round body, followed by a chalky mineral finish.
Brothers Pepe and Paco started Callejuela, a Sherry Bodega, in 1980, with just two barrels of finely aged wine. As farmers, they have always maintained their own vineyards, initially only selling off the grapes (as pressed “mosto” or juice). Over time they traded this mosto with Bodega owners for old barrels so they could build up the stock needed to start making and aging their own Vinos Generosos, or Sherry.
Palomino Fino is used to make all but the sweetest styles of Sherry and is very rarely bottled as a still white wine that has not been fortified. It is a fairly neutral grape, but this turns out to be a brilliant transmitter of the Albariza soil. Albariza is a very chalky soil (similar to the chalky soil of Champagne) that is also very absorbent. This helps the vines to survive the harsh summers in Andalucia with no rainfall. The chalk comes shining through in the lightly fruited wines made from Palomino. Pepe and Paco pick a little later than most, achieving riper fruit and a rounder palate, but still with a clear, prismatic expression of the Albariza soil.