ETOILE
Dry white wine
Étoile is our star; dry, sherry, saline and elegant; a silent memory of our history. Its grapes come from Miraflores Alta, a vineyard more than sixty years old in one of the historic estates of the Pago. It is vinified in Manzanilla casks or in French oak barrels (depending on the vintage). It is vinified without intervention and without flor veil, and its notes are reminiscent of the wines of the Marco de Jerez.
| Variety | 100% fine palomino of masal selection planted in 1960. |
| Plot | Miraflores Alta.0.7 hectares. Miraflores Estate. Sanlúcar de Barrameda. |
| Viticulture | Biodynamic since 2016. |
| Winemaking | Pressing of whole bunches. Gravity destemming. Spontaneous fermentation and vinification in used Bordeaux barrels for 11 months with all its lees. Deliming with calcium bentonite. Bottled unfiltered. |
| Production | 300-1200 bottles/year. |
| Analysis | 5-15mg/l free sulphur. |
Opinions
José Peñín (Peñín Guide)
“Lumière 2021: Full-bodied, fatty, complex, with refreshing acidity and evocation of chalk, wild herbs and fallow straw (99 points)”.”
James Suckling (James Suckling Guide)
«Elixir 2025 (96 points) is among the 100 best Spanish wines of 2024. A pure Moscatel de Chipiona with aromas of orange blossom and brine, as well as hints of ginger. Medium-bodied, luminous and energetic, with a delicate saline profile».
Luis Gutierrez (Robert Parker)
“Lumiere 2022 is the one with the most purity, elegance and subtlety; very good intensity, precise, clean and detailed (95+ Parker points).”
Jancis Robinson (Financial Times)
«It is tempting to wonder which wines that are being launched on the market can develop a great reputation, and even become cult wines. I would like to name the Andalusian wines of Muchada-Léclapart».»
Dan Keeling (Noble Rot, England)
«Far from modern ‘technical’ winemaking, Muchada learned his trade from the humble older winegrowers of Sanlúcar, achieving together with Leclapart his ‘Univers’ and ‘Lumière’: pure and saline wines (both in the Top five)».»
Darren Smith. Decanter (England)
«Muchada dedicates great effort to agriculture, learning from the old generation of Sanlúcar winegrowers to produce Palomino of the highest quality, which he masterfully transforms into the purest and most crystalline wines (97 points).»
Sarah Jeans Evans. Master of Wine (England)
«The advantage is that without the usual flor or solera influence you can taste the terroir... A delicately honeyed wine with drops of jasmine and a clean, saline finish.»
Rene Langdahl. Journalist (Denmark)
«Can a landscape, a state of mind, be best described by a meticulous and naturalistic artistic reproduction? I doubt it, but they are impressionists. They have transferred to the bottle the mad glow of the chalk-white grounds under a cloudless sky, but soothed by the seagulls and the breeze...
