Grapes: Pansa Blanca
Region: Catalunya
Vintage: 2021
Viticulture: Organic
Soils: Granite
Vinification : Destemmed, macerated with the skins for 11 days
Aging: Pressed and fermented in stainless steel deposits with native yeasts. Once the fermentation has ended, the wine rests on its fine lees for 9 months in the same deposits
Fining or Filtering: None
Sulfur: None
Notes from the Importer:
Over the last few years, Oriol Artigas’ has become one of the most beloved natural winemakers in Catalonia, deftly capturing a clean cero-cero vibrancy in his wines, while maintaining a Mediterranean character that vividly shows their grapes’ origins. Oriol farms 12.5 hectares around the seaside town of Alella, just north of Barcelona. Farming in a fairly dry Mediterranean climate normally makes working organically relatively easy. In the 2020 vintage, climate change reared its ugly head, and mildew wiped out nearly all of Oriol’s harvest. He sent out a request for help (his “S.O.S.”) to his many grower friends throughout Catalonia and made wine with their grapes instead of his own.
