Alemany I Corrió, Sot Lefriec, Penedès, Spain, 2020

Producer Profile

From their base in the town of Vilafranca del Penedès, partners Irene and Laurent are challenging traditional perceptions of DO Penedès wine.

Committed to organic viticulture, they have long since abandoned all forms of chemical treatments and fertilizers, and have a similar contempt for the area’s traditionally high yields. Within their modest cellar, which in part they built themselves, production remains reassuringly small. However, as they identify further small vineyard sites, their range has extended to include distinctive wines of richness and complexity using naturally fermented Xarel-lo.

Viticulture

Trained gobelet and on wire, approximately vineyards between 35 and 70 years old, clay and limestone soils, approximately 3000 kg / Ha, viticulture: lutte raisonnée.

Winemaking

Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks with a long cold sulphitic prefermentative maceration with wild yeast. Malolactic fermentation with wild bacterias in 228l French oak barrels.

Tasting Note

Aromas of smoky oak, blackcurrant and cherry with a hint of herbs. Dry with soft acidity. Dense but concentrated, with blackcurrant and cherry alongside the integrated toasty oak. Wonderfully deep with hints of dark chocolate and minerals. Very long with a touch of camphor-like herbs in the finish.

Food Matching

Rich dark meat lile venison stew, wild boar and lamb.