ALEMANY I CORRIÓ, Spain

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

Practicing sustainable agriculture and eschewing the use of any non-organic products in their vineyards they work to achieve balance between the plants and the soil. Canopy management to reduce yields and achieve phenolic ripeness.

Winemaking

They created a simple cellar in an old unit on the industrial side of Vilafranca, just behind the Torres installation (where Laurent moonlighted working on the bottling line for a while). They are basic and organic which means you have to build your own tanks - they did - and although they rely on skills of coopers in Burgundy for their barrels much of the construction and equipping of their cellar has been "home made".