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100% Macabeo
Making of: the grapes from each vineyard were hand-harvested at different times in August, to get them at optimum ripeness. They are then directly pressed into the same stainless-steel tank where they fermented together with the vineyard’s indigenous yeast. After the alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, the wine rests in the same tank for about 5months and is bottled in the following spring. Unfined, unfiltered, 10ppm SO2 added at bottling, 15ppm total. (Ferrán usually doesn’t add any sulfur, but this particular wine in the 2022 vintage felt like a good idea to add a tiny bit in order to keep it in shape.)
Personality: Flowers and citric fruit mingling with minerality, electric in the mouth. Its freshness and lightness make it really perfect to drink at any occasion and time of the day.
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Ferran Lacruz farms 8 hectares of vines in Catalonia, in the small village of Sant Marti Sarroca, in the heart of the Penedès wine region. Ferran started this project with his first vintage of 2018. He works completely outside of any appellation, farms the grapes organically, and is not adding anything to any of the wines. All the grapes are hand-harvested, and nothing is filtered or fined. Ferran grew up in this part of Catalonia, and since being a small child was seduced by the landscape, natural beauty, and the important of wine producing in the culture. He studied tourism in college, which left him feeling unfulfilled. So, with a friend, he began to embark on the journey of becoming a winemaker, looking to produce clean natural wines that express his homeland with honesty.
“El Soci was born from the desire to bring wine closer to people who sometimes feel a certain fear of drinking it due to its “elite-like” status that often exists. This wine is the opposite of that– it wants to invite everyone to have a glass of
wine and just enjoy a good time with friends, partners, family etc, to remind us that wine is above all a partner for great moments in our lives.”
The label differs from Clandestina’s other labels to reflect that philosophy: “This wine basically wants to offer a big revitalizing energy, to be easy-drinking for these convivial moments, when the wine is not center of attention, but a small part of the casual conversation that we are sharing with our friends, giving harmony to that moment. In Catalan, we have a specific word for a person like that – the word is “Soci”, meaning something like “fellow colleague” or also “membership”. To share this easy-going idea also in a visual way, we opened the lock (closed on the other wines). As in: “don’t over-think, the lock is open, so enjoy!!”
- Jenny & Francois
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