Appellation: DO Penedès Cuvée: Hey! Colour: White Grapes: Macabeu 60, Xarello 40 About: New in 2019, an entry level white with a bit of skin contact from a new vineyard Amós is looking after that was planted by his Grandfather, this is more about the wine experience than Missatge and Oculta which are more about … Continue reading Amós Bañeres Hey! 2019
Appellation: Cava. Cuvée: SIN. Colour: Sparkling White. Grapes: Xarello. About: A soft and silky, mineral, saline Cava, with some complexity from 18 months on lees. SIN means “without” in Spanish; the wine is made without chemical products and with little intervention in the making. Vines Location: near Sant Marti Sarroca just north west of Vilafranca … Continue reading SIN Cava
Appellation: DO Penedès. Cuvée: Ull de Llebre. Colour: Red. Grapes: Tempranillo (called Ull de Llebre in Catalonia). About: From pure limestone soils and with a maceration of just two days, this is as simply made as possible to yield a very soft, silky, pure, light red wine. Vines Location: near Sant Marti Sarroca just north … Continue reading SIN Tempranillo
Appellation: DO Penedès. Cuvée: Xarello. Colour: White. Grapes: Xarel-lo. About: SIN means without in Spanish; the wine is made without chemical products or much intervention in the making. As little as possible is done to make this wine, the grapes are harvested from warmer sited south-west facing vines at the end of August when the … Continue reading SIN Xarello
Almost everything we know about Els Vinyerons Vins Naturals wines for now has been posted here! Els Vinyerons Vins Naturals is a brilliantly realised project to make inexpensive organic, sans soufre, terroir wines. By Alex Rios and Amós Bañeres, who each produce very successful but totally different wines in their own name.
Appellation: Penedès Cuvée: Saltamarti Colour: Red Grapes: Tempranillo About: Both red and white Els Vinyerons – Vins Naturals wines are creations brilliantly realised to make inexpensive organic, sans soufre, terroir wines. They’re designed to be clean and easy to drink while fully capturing the fruit character of the grape and soil and climate. Early vintages … Continue reading Els Vinyerons Penedès Saltamarti
Appellation: Penedès Cuvée: Lluerna Colour: White Grapes: Xarello About: Both red and white Els Vinyerons – Vins Naturals wines are creations brilliantly realised to make inexpensive organic, sans soufre, terroir wines. They’re designed to be clean and easy to drink while fully capturing the fruit character of the grape and soil and climate. The soil … Continue reading Els Vinyerons Penedès Lluerna
Almost everything we know about Amós Bañeres’s wines for now has been posted here! Amós makes tiny quantities of pure, complex, elegant, rich and totally gorgeous wines from a small hillside near Vilafranca in the Penedès of Macabeu on one side and Xarel-lo on the other. Without added sulfites.
Appellation: DO Penedès. Cuvée: Vinya Oculta. Colour: White. Grapes: Xarello. About: Amos top wine – until he produced the extraordinary Arrels del Cielo. Majestic, full of umami, the name means the dark side of the vineyard because it’s north-facing so ripens more slowly, more intensely. While Missatge expresses a celestial side to Macabeu, this very … Continue reading Amós Bañeres Penedès Vinya Oculta
Appellation: DO Penedès. Cuvée: Missatge en una Ampolla. Colour: White. Grapes: Macabeu. About: Amos feels Macabeu is an incredible grape, with complex fruit and cool salty acidity, but it’s difficult to grow because the skin is thin, the cluster is tight and so it’s prone to disease. So, many Macabeu wines are earthy and vegetal. … Continue reading Amós Bañeres Penedès Missatge en una Ampolla
