About the Wine
A briny, refreshing blend of seven different native white varieties: Garnacha Blanca, Macabeo, Xarel-lo, Moscatel d'Alexandría, Vinyater, Pansé and Parellada.
Each variety is harvested one after the other at an early stage of ripeness. The whole bunches are crushed by foot, and macerated briefly for a day or two. After maceration, the wine is pressed at low pressure and fermented in a stainless steel tank. After a few days the second variety is harvested, the same process is repeated and it is fermented with the first, and so on until all the varietals are combined.
Vinello means 'wine of friendship and society', a drinkable and refreshing white wine with a low alcohol content, and a great intro to the Partida house style. Salty lemon citrus and mouthwatering acidity with light floral aromatics. A real quencher.
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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