2016 Mas Candi Xarel-lo QX

Region: Penedes < Spain Grapes: Xarel-lo Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified organic + biodynamic farming, whiteclay/limestone/flint soils at 300m, 50-100 year-old vines; fruit from4 parcels is picked, destemmed pressed, and given 24 hours of skincontact before spontaneous fermentation. Aged on fine lees primarilyin amphora as well as French oak, American oak, Acacia and Chestnutwood barrels; wine then ages for 8 months in its lees before beingbottled unfined/unfiltered with zero added SO2; zero-zero; 300 cases;13% ABV Winemaker: Toni Carbó Four viticulture and enology students got together in 2006 to startMas Candi to make wines from their families’ vineyards, all farmedbiodynamically and based on indigenous Catalan varieties.  Xarel-lo isthe lead grape in Cava, Spain's sparkling wine, and rarely is bottledon its own. This is their high-end cuveé, with the Xarel-lo comingfrom 4 vineyard sites that they’ve picked out as being of particularlyhigh quality, then getting 4 different aging