2025 Sensal Blanc, Javi Revert

• Style: Pale, dry, mineral white
• Taste: Citrus, green pear, wild thyme, mineral salinity
• Food: Oysters, seafood, grilled fish, aperitif
• Occasion: Oyster night, aperitif before a fish supper, warm evenings outdoors
• Serve: Chilled, 8–10°C

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

2025 Sensal Blanc, Javi Revert is Malvasia and nothing else, grown in the hills south of Valencia, and it makes the case for the grape as a serious white: pale, bone-dry and saline, citrus first, then a thread of wild thyme. Green pear fills out the middle of the palate. The acidity is refreshing and precise; the finish extends with savoury length and mineral grip.

The Winery — Javi Revert

Javi Revert grew up in La Font de la Figuera, a village in Valencia & Comunidad Valenciana, and farms calcareous soils, which is where this wine's freshness starts. Across 12 hectares in Los Juncarejos—north-facing vineyard slopes at 700 metres elevation—he stewards two distinct collections. The first comprises restored old-bush vines, anchored by the Micalet vineyard (established in 1948 by his great-grandfather). The second half gathers plots he has reclaimed and resown with native varieties, including Arcos—a heat-resistant native once close to extinction.

Every parcel operates under biodynamic discipline. Olive and almond trees grow inside the vineyard here, and Josep Ramón, a regenerative-farming specialist, helps Javi run the whole site as one habitat.

The 2025 vintage arrived from a warm, dry summer that concentrated fruit while preserving acidity—essential to this wine's structure. Separate fermentation in neutral vessels precedes a concrete-tank blend before bottling. Organic-certified, biodynamically farmed and entirely vegan.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

This is a white built for oysters, seafood and candlelit company on warm evenings—equally compelling as an aperitif. Grilled fish, raw bars, fresh shellfish: all find their ideal companion here. Serve chilled, around 8–10°C.

It is for the buyer who wants a Spanish white with salt and nerve rather than oak or sweetness, and at 12.5% it stays light on its feet through a long supper. Open it young and cold rather than laying it down. If that is the brief, add a bottle to the basket now. Then, to taste the grape in other hands, go to the Malvasia shelf; the Valencia & Comunidad Valenciana shelf has his neighbours, and the wider Spain range the rest of the country.