Producer Pardida Creus

SPAIN

Partida Creus is a small family run business located in Bonastre, near Tarragona, in the denomination of Penedes. We find Antonella Gerosa behind Partida Creus and Massimo Marchiori who in 2001 decided to leave Italy and move to Spain with the intent to make sustainable and quality viticulture with native Catalan vines. Antonella and Massimo have in particular recovered and valorised two typical varieties that risked disappearing: the garrut and the sumoll, but in the rows we also find other varieties such as the gra gros, l'allargat, la petit, the xarel-lo, the cartoixa vermell, the viñater, the bobal, and the macabeu. In vineyards they avoid invasive mechanical work, and together with the absence of chemical treatments, emphasizing the biodynamic cycles and the lunar phases, they manage to have a very limited production of excellent quality grapes. The same philosophy is applied in the cellar where wines of maximum integrity are produced, without added sulphites, unfiltered and uncleared. 27,000 bottles produced, divided into ancestral and still wines.