Cota 45

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A project that begins in the vineyard, not the winery

Cota 45 was founded in 2015 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda as the personal project of winemaker Ramiro Ibáñez.
Its starting point is not the winery, but the vineyard, and the desire to recover the most primal and honest way of understanding wine in the Marco de Jerez.

After training as an oenologist and working in different wine regions around the world, Ramiro returned to his homeland with a clear idea: to reinterpret Jerez from its origin, from grape and soil, rather than from the industrialized system of modern fortified wine.

The soul of the project: albariza

The core of Cota 45 is albariza, the white, chalky soil characteristic of the Marco de Jerez.
But it is not a single soil type, rather a complex mosaic of albarizas such as lentejuelas, lustrillos, or barajuelas, each with different behavior.

This approach turns each parcel into a unique piece of a geological and viticultural map that directly defines the style of the wines.

Sanlúcar de Barrameda and the Atlantic influence

The vineyards are located between the Atlantic coast and the inland area of Sanlúcar.
This transition creates two very different environments: cooler, maritime parcels alongside more continental ones with greater water stress and different ripening patterns.

The result is enormous diversity within a single territory, which Ramiro uses as a fundamental winemaking tool.

UBE, Agostado and Pandorga: three readings of the same place

Cota 45 structures its work into three main wine families.

UBE represents biological vintage wines inspired by historic manzanillas, aged under flor without fortification. These are direct, saline wines with great tension, where the vineyard clearly speaks.

Agostado reflects the oxidative tradition of the Marco, reinterpreting styles such as palo cortado or oloroso through native varieties and deeper aging.

Pandorga focuses on natural sweet wines, such as PX or Tintilla de Rota, made using traditional techniques like sun-drying (asoleo).

A viticulture that looks to the past to understand the present

Ramiro Ibáñez’s work is based on local varieties such as Palomino (Listán), historic recovered grapes, and close collaboration with Sanlúcar growers.
His goal is not to modernize Jerez in a conventional sense, but to recover its original logic: the direct relationship between soil, climate, and wine.

This involves radical decisions such as fermenting with native yeasts, working without added sulfites in many wines, and adapting each wine to the identity of its parcel.

A style that breaks conventions in the Marco de Jerez

Cota 45 does not aim to reproduce standard Sherry, but to expand its language.
These are vintage, single-parcel, single-soil wines, where flor, oxidation, or sweetness are not fixed categories, but natural expressions of the environment.

This approach has positioned Ramiro Ibáñez as one of the most influential figures in the contemporary reinterpretation of the Marco de Jerez.

Cota 45 today

Today the project has evolved toward an identity more closely associated with Ramiro Ibáñez’s own name, but it keeps its original philosophy intact: wines born from the vineyard, the landscape, and an honest reading of each vintage.

Cota 45 at Coalla Gourmet

At Coalla Gourmet, we select Cota 45 for its key role in the new Jerez: wines that do not simplify the territory, but explain it in greater depth.
One of the most personal, intelligent, and radically honest expressions of Spanish wine today.