Hika Blanco 2024

This white Txakoli is fresh and bright, with a clean lemon appearance and fresh citrus notes on the nose with hints of herbaceous characters. The wine spends 10 months on lees after fermentation with indigenous yeasts, allowing the wine to express its natural terroir and having a more rounded mouthfeel. The palate has the classic light spritz to accompany the fresh acidity and notes of citrus and white fruit with a lovely clean mineral finish, a true expression of the Atlantic.

This pairs well with spicy Asian dishes, pork, fresh seafood such as sushi and creamy cheeses such as Camembert, Brie or Goats Cheese.

Bodegas HIKA are based in the Getariko Txakolina, the easternmost wine region of the Basque Country. They own 7 hectares of vineyards are located on the foothill of the Hernio Mountains, just inland from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by oak and pine forests. Bodegas HIKA work with a minimum intervention approach to their land and winemaking, working only with the indigenous yeasts of the grapes, believing this to give the best expression of the terroir, showing the minerality of the txakoli wines, but also having the best environmental impact. With this philosophy in mind, they farm organically, only using natural fertilizers, working without pesticides and promoting biodiversity, with their own sheep running free amongst the vines. They also use a carbon capture system in the winery which helps manage CO2 obtained from fermentation which is reused throughout all other stages, reducing the wineries emissions.