RIM Emporda, Pét-Nat Rosat ‘Contraban’ 2021

95% Grenache Noir, 5% Muscat d'Alexandria Organic Emporda, Catalonia, Spain Sourced from one vineyard of 30 year-old Grenache and one vineyard of 60 year-old Muscat d'Alexandria, both on fully slate soils. Co-macerated for 36 hours, pressed off to ferment in stainless steel tank. Rested on full lees before bottling, which happened just a few days before fermentation completed to make a natural sparkling wine. Unfined/unfiltered, zero SO2 added. ‘Contraban’ is a wink and a nod to a time during Franco’s dictatorship where laws about what could cross over the Roussillon border with Empordà became very strict, and black market trade over the Pyrenees flourished as a result. These wines are always made with some ‘contraband’ fruit from a Roussillon grower with whom Jordi is friends—the source and the grower changes each year. Jordi Esteve is a really special human and vigneron. Born in Girona, but with ancestral roots in the tiny Alt Empordà village of Rabós, Jordi is one of those rare peop