About the Wine
Made from a beautiful, secluded vineyard of Garrut vines (the Catalonian name for the grape better known as Monastrell or Mourvèdre) planted on sandy calcareous soils.
Again, we have a thick-skinned Mediterranean varietal given a lighter treatment - time in huge old 3000-litre Slavonian barrel brings more developed notes of sweet leather and spice, but there is bright fruit at the core. Ripe black cherries, dried pantry herbs, and an earthy rusticity. Like all Partida wines, it has a fluid, highly digestible quality.
About Partida Creus
Partida Creus is the project of two Italians now in residence in the Tarragona region of Catalonia, just south of Barcelona. The idea of the project was to work with historical, often overlooked local varietals that in many cases were not recognised by the D.O. of the area: Penedès. Massimo and Antonella strategically went about buying up small plots of abandoned vineyards dotted around the area where mostly unknown varietals such as Garrut, Vinyater, Samsó and Queixal de Llop grew. They sought to revitalise the vines and work out the best expression for these old varetals, working without chemicals in the vineyard and without selected yeasts or any other additions in the cellar. They make an impressively dizzying number of different wines, all of which are unified by a very distinctive house style - raw, viceral and pungent reds, and salty, turbid, expressive whites. As a couple they have an insatiable energy which really comes through in the wine.
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