100% Macabeo

Food pairings: White fish, fresh shellfish and mussels, marinated or raw fish and seafood such as ceviche, and vegetable rice; also lovely as an aperitif.

Winemaking: The 2024 grapes were picked by hand into bins on September 8. The wine aged six months on its fine lees, without bâtonnage, in underground concrete tanks, and was bottled in June 2025.

Vineyards and terroir: The fruit comes from organically farmed, dry-farmed old bush vines on limestone soils near Épila in Valdejalón, Aragón, at about 500 to 530 meters, under a continental climate tempered by the Ebro valley.

Family and history: Bodegas Frontonio was founded by Master of Wine Fernando Mora, starting in a garage. The winery is based in Alpartir, in the Sierra del Jalón, and also works plots in Tobed, Inogés, Morata, Santa Cruz de Grío and Épila. It farms almost only old, dry-farmed bush vines planted between 1898 and 1980, plowing with horses and working by hand. The name honors San Frontonio, a martyr whose severed head was said to have been found floating upriver, a symbol of the winery's spirit of swimming against the tide.

In the pictures: Barrels and a clay jar in the Bodegas Frontonio cellar; barrels in the winery's underground cellar; and white grapes on an old vine. Photographs from Bodegas Frontonio.