Tasting notes published in Guía Peñín (July 2024)
The Peñín Guide 2025 placed three of our wines above 95 points, being the most outstanding score, Lumière 2021 with 99 points. It was the first time in history that the cultural barrier of categorising white wines from the Palomino grape as inferior to the fortified wines of the Marco de Jerez was broken. Peñín considered two categories and gave Lumière the position of a great white wine from Spain as it deserves.
José Peñín commented on his Instagram account: “A few months ago, talking to my Guide colleague Javier Luengo, I told him that the dry white wines from Cádiz, the so-called “vinos de pasto”, were not sustainable if they were not helped by a pass through the flor de los finos or, if anything, kept in empty finos ageing butts. I told him that with the palomino, outside of biological or oxidative breeding, there were few members to be had. He replied that not at all. The most notorious example was the white palomino Lumière from Muchada-Léclapart and aged in French oak barrels. like any wine of this type. I didn't believe it. I had to attend the tasting a few weeks ago for the Guía 2025 edition to be surprised that I was wrong. Not content with his assertion, I tasted it in comparison with a large number of the best whites from 95 points upwards (...) the chalky soil of the albariza of the Marco de Jerez gives it an unsuspected elegance for a palomino. Full-bodied, oily, complex, with refreshing acidity and the evocation of chalk, wild herbs and fallow straw. An original wine. It has no less than 99 out of 100 points in the 2025 Guide. ”.
