'Blanc Sense Papers'

Xarello, Penedes, Catalonia, Spain

Lively, like the littlest sibling who’s always cannonballing onto your bed in the morning, surprise! Time to wake up your eyeballs! Young, visionary winemaker Ferran Lacruz has been organically farming his 8ha of land, in the small village of Sant Marti Sarroca, since 2018. Made from 56 year old vines, grown on calcareous-limestone soils that punch an oceanic, minerality-shaped-hole straight through all of Ferran’s wines. Here, grapes are hand harvested at three different times as the individual bunches of fruit ripen. The first harvest (65%) is fermented in stainless steel, second harvest (25%) is macerated before fermentation, pressed to stainless steel for fermentation, then both are aged 3-4 moths in demijohn. The third harvest (10%) is fermented on the skins for 3 weeks, and then aged for 4 months in a 500 litre oak barrel. Like a bedside breakfast platter in heaven – white peach fritters, fresh shucked oysters, juiced orange grove, white lilac honey & salted Fuji apple slices. Enjoy with brunch because 11 am here is 5 pm in Spain & it just makes sense.