Almost everything we know about Celler La Salada-Mas Candí’s wines for now has been posted here! Toni and Anna Carbó with Ramon Jane Garriga and Merce Pujol are making a large and eclectic but very fine and ever improving collection of wines, from organic wines and without any additives.
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Caboriès. Colour: Red. Grapes: Mando, Sumoll Tinto, Xarello. About: a fascinating blend of native varieties to create a wine that has intensity but very light touch, somewhere in between Roig Boig and Maçaners. Vines Location: Gunyoles. Size ha: 1.5. Age: Mando and Sumoll Tinto planted between 1985 and 2010, Xarello in 1949. … Continue reading La Salada Caboriès
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Maçaners. Colour: Red. Grapes: Sumoll. About: Sumoll is Catalonia’s Poulsard or Pinot Noir, a quite delicate but intense variety that’s more about acidity and perfume than fruit. In the hands of a careful producer, the results are usually very lovely. Toni’s wine is as concentrated as it gets, with fabulous finesse. It … Continue reading La Salada Maçaners
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Sota Els Ametllers. Colour: Orange. Grapes: Malvasia de Sitges. About: new in 2016, made from a single, rare varietal and given the full orange treatment, but unlike Bufarrella where the long skin maceration seems to disappear into the wine, this wine is distinctly orange, astringent, tannic and peppery from the skin contact. … Continue reading La Salada Sota Els Ametllers
Appellation: VDE. Cuvée: La Bufarrella. Colour: White. Grapes: Xarello. About: another killer wine from Toni Carbó that shows what can be done with Xarello, here low-yielding and given 5 months skin contact with 5% of the stems left in to add some vegetal crunch, the wine that comes out is hardly orange and remarkably fine … Continue reading La Salada La Bufarrella
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: L’Ermot. Colour: White. Grapes: Macabeu. About: shows the diversity and quality of Macabeu, which is rarely used for varietal wines here, being usually blended into Cava. This wine has a strikingly rich, viscous texture, and toasty character, which comes from the age of the vines, there’s no oak used. Vines Location: Pla … Continue reading La Salada L’Ermot
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Ovella Negra. Colour: White. Grapes: Garnacha Blanca 2/3, Malvasia de Sitges 1/3. About: the unusual blend makes this wine stand out, there’s very little of either grape in the Penedès, or even in Spain. One of the richer wines from this producer. Vines Location: Gunyoles and Plan del Penedès. Size ha: less … Continue reading La Salada Ovella Negra
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Baudili. Colour: White. Grapes: Xarello 65%, Parellada 35%. About: this is basically a still Tinc Set and was originally, in the first vintage 2016, called Tinc Set Tranquil. To avoid confusion, for the label was basically the same as the sparkling, too, the wine has been re-named after the vineyard it comes … Continue reading La Salada Baudili
Appellation: Vi. Cuvée: Roig Boig. Colour: Rosé. Grapes: Mando, Sumoll, Xarello, Parellada, Torbat, Monica, Cannonau, Rogenc (Garnacha de Emporda), and Carinyana. About: the first vintage of this wine, 2013, was more of a pale red and the wine has always been well coloured for a Rosé, not surprisingly given the mix of red and white … Continue reading La Salada Roig Boig
Appellation: Vi escumós. Cuvée: Roig Boig Ancestral. Colour: Sparkling Pink. Grapes: Mando, Sumoll, Xarello, Parellada, Torbat, Monica, Cannonau, Rogenc (Garnacha de Emporda), and Carinyana. About: This deceptively simple Pet Nat (Ancestral) sparkling rosé wine is made from a blend of 9 grapes, both red and white. It’s the sparkling version of their killer pale red … Continue reading La Salada Roig Boig Ancestral
Appellation: Vi escumós. Cuvée: Tinc Set. Colour: Sparkling White. Grapes: Xarello 65%, Parellada 35%. About: Fine, thirst-quenching, wonderfully refreshing with clean and pure fruit. This light, easy, fun sparkling white is just about the best aperitif or palate cleanser or fix of bubbles we know. As with all La Salada-Mas Candí joint productions, it’s from … Continue reading La Salada Tinc Set
