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 comes from an entirely different terroir, high altitude. But only around 300 bottles are produced.
Vines
Location: Bages, Manresa, north-west of Barcelona.
Size ha: 1.
Age: vines planted in 1920.
Soils: clay red.
Exposition: north east.
Altitude: 600m.
Training: gobelet.
Farming: organic, with the emphasis to protect soil moisture and microbial activity.
Average yield hl/ha: 20.
Climate: Mediterranean.
Winemaking
Hand harvested fruit is de-stemmed and then foot-trodden in a large amphora to ferment. After 2 weeks, it’s pressed and moved to a small amphora to age for one year before bottling.
Vintage Notes 2016
Yield hl/ha: .
Harvested: .
Bottles produced: 300.
Date bottled: .
Alcohol %: 12.50.
SO2 Total: <7.
Tasting: spicy cassis, blackberry, leather fruit aromas, quite tannic and concentrated balanced by high acidity. Intense, persistent, complex, gorgeous.
Vintage Notes 2017
Frost hit the vineyard so there was even less than normal, so the blend is made up with some Roig Boig Sumoll and a few percent of other grapes which gives it even greater finesse.
Vintage notes 2018
Dry and normal summer temperatures followed a slightly wet spring, lending all the wines a vegetal sappiness.
Yield hl/ha: 20.
Date Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 300.
Date bottled: 2020-04.
Alcohol: 10.75 %.
SO2 Total: <10.
Tasting: powerful but not heavy, intense and concentrated, yet limpid, with driving acidity and core of cassis, black pepper, red berry and plum fruit.