La Salada 'La Filla del Macaners' Sumoll Catalonia 2021

La Salada 'La Filla del Macaners' Sumoll Catalonia 2021Press 2 June 2024 Direct Press Selection Toni Carbo is following in the footsteps of his grandfather Toni Carbo, who worked and saved enough to purchase vineyards near the village of Parellada where nobody else wanted to plant grapes. These were limestone screes and shaded areas near the river that were difficult to work but have proved to be excellent sites for great wine, and they are now valued as such. The younger Toni and his partner Anna Serra

and one’s soul

Jerome Bourgeois-Diaz took over his family's vines in the early 2000s and began making wines from their grapes for the first time -- they had always sold the fruit to the local cooperative

with notes of hibiscus and dried apple rings

It's vibrant and nervy with Alpine strawberry

Hauntingly complex

The Gris Gris is grown on vineyards set atop a cliff overlooking the Mediterrenean Sea

anise and ripe yellow apple

giving the wines a bit more savory sheen than the limestone and clay mix found elsewhere in the Loire

The soils are predominantly clay which requires all work to be done by hand and result in more structured

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the wines always have a certain demonic edge to them

Press 4 White • March 2024 Direct Press Selection