A pleasing all-rounder showcasing typical Catalonian varietals, all coming from different vineyard plots and blended, seemingly effortlessly, in stainless steel. Xarel.lo, Macabeo, Malvasia de Sitges, Parellada and White Sumoll all jostle together in this fresh yet funky blend. White pepper, lemon citrus. Find out more.
About the Wine
A category-defying wine made with local varietal Xarel-lo Vermell, an obscure strain of the white grape which ripens with a pink twinge to the skins. After two weeks macerating in chestnut barrels, this flush of colour bleeds into the juice, leaving things somewhere in the middle of the orange wine/rosé venn diagram.
The barrels are very traditional in Penedès winemaking, but have largely been faded out in commercial production. After seven months resting in these vessels the wine is texturally rounded, with some fantastic clarity and poise to its well-defined structure. Little fruits like underripe green strawberry and red berries hang in the balance with floaty floral blossom and cracked peppercorn spice. An intriguing wine from a small single parcel of less than a hectare, with only 2000 bottles produced.
About Vinyes Singulars
Ignasi and his family farm 120 hectares of land in Penedes, just on the south side of Barcelona. 40 hectares is used for vines whilst they also grow cereal crops, olive trees and vegetables on the rest. Ignasi’s farm has been in the family for generations, and they combine both a beloved heritage with innovation. This estate is big to us here at Wayward, but it is managed without adding chemicals to the land, preserving and improving the whole ecosystem. Impressive stuff. These beliefs follow through to their winemaking, with no additional sulphites and with no filtration in the cellar, they are producing wine that speaks of their grapes, vintage, and terroir. We are confident that the past generations would approve of Ignasi’s natural winemaking techniques; or what they would have simply called in simpler times, ‘winemaking’.
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