Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Espenyalluchs 2024 TAGS with an elegant chalky minerality

with an elegant chalky minerality

recently bought a parcel back on the Moulin-a-Vent hill

This is roughly 50/50 Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

While there is still plenty of acidity and snap

its Syrah-ness

Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Espenyalluchs 2024 TAGS with an elegant chalky mineralityOrganic. Biodynamic 100% Xarello. This is a single vineyard wine drawn from the plot called Espenyalluchs, a gently sloping parcel at 400msl with clay soil covered by small pebbles. Its a single hectare planted with a careful massale selection of the best vines from Solers original 1945 plot called Vinya dels Taus. The wine ferments and ages on the lees for nine months in the oldest 300l barrels in the cellar. Harvest was the first of September 2024;