Oriol Artigas "Sammay" Negre 2023

Oriol Artigas "Sammay" Negre 2023Press 4 Red August 2025 Direct Press Selection Oriol Artigas began his professional life as a chemist, but soon started moving towards winemaking. First he taught enology at a university in Catalonia and that led him to begin restoring the ancient Roman vineyards that had been ignored in his home region of Alella, about 15 clicks from Barcelona. Since 2011 he has been making some of the most attention grabbing and delicious natural wines in Spain from

located mid-coast between Lisbon and Porto

aka Blaufränkisch

They have two acres and no tractor

It's an orange wine but a very subtle one with layers of complexity and filigreed detail

with notes of rich

and black raspberry with earth and spice notes

winemaker Giulio Armani crafts this snappy and characterful white with an eye towards minimal cellar intervention and maximum expressiveness of the region's traditional varieties

high-toned citrus

Viognier’s bad rep doesn’t come from commercial winemakers diluting the market with cheap

ripe peach

as has their organic farming

but more recently the family was selling off their wine in bulk instead of bottling it themselves