Bodegas Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina 2025

Bodegas Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina 2025It's the summer of Txakoli! Or at least that's what we're telling ourselves. If you don't know what Txakoli is yet, here's the short version: it's your new favourite summer wine. Briny, salty, a little bit spritzy, ridiculously refreshing. The wine you drink on a hot day when you want something that wakes you up. The Ameztoi family has been making it since 1820. Ignacio is the seventh generation. The grape is Hondarrabi Zuri, indigenous to this corner

fermented in concrete with native yeasts

something slow and rich that needs a wine with backbone

He was way ahead of the curve with half of the estate's 42 hectares sitting within the crus of Clisson

a little sunshine in a glass

a rare white grape said to have been brought to Naples from Spain in the 14th century by Alfonso I of Aragón

First vintage was 2017

If SP68 Bianco is a manifesto of texture and light

There's also an almost balsamic thing

It's what turns sharp

It smells of ripe pear and melon

with granite soils and a humid breeze that's perfect for old-vine Moscatel

He launched a line called NAT'Cool