Profile
2018Since
- Vineyard
- 3 ha of ungrafted vines in Aia and Getaria · slate and clay
- Production
- Fewer than 4.000 bottles per wine
- Varieties
- Hondarribi Zuri, Hondarribi Beltza, Hondarribi Zerratia
- In the vineyard
- Certified organic and biodynamic, hand harvest
- In the cellar
- Indigenous yeasts, fine lees, unfiltered, under 10 mg/L of sulphites
In 2018, Aitor Irazu and cousin Jon Estebanez found Sorgintxulo, three hectares of ungrafted Hondarribi Zuri that had been abandoned for five years in Aia, next to Getaria. They spent two years clearing them by hand and in 2021 made the first harvest. Makatzak means “wild apples” in Basque.
They farm organically and biodynamically, harvest by hand and ferment with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel. The wines age between 8 and 16 months on fine lees, some in used barrel, and are bottled unfined and unfiltered, with under 10 mg/L of sulphites. The result is txakolis with Atlantic tension and salinity.
Their wines
4 wines- Ghaur 25 Hondarribi Zuri / 12 months on fine lees NEW VINTAGE
- Harri ta Zur 22 Hondarribi Zuri / 10 months on fine lees / Used French oak barrel
- Narrasti 24 90% H. Zuri and 10% H. Zerratia / 10 months on fine lees / 25% French oak barrel NEW VINTAGE
- Gandor 24 Hondarribi Beltz, Hondarribi Zuri / 12 months in used French oak barrel NEW VINTAGE
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