"CX" Cartoixa Vermell 2020 - Partida Creus

"CX" Cartoixa Vermell - Partida Creus

Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa of Partida Creus are perhaps the most famous wine producers in Spain, because they were able to revitalize the abandoned vineyards in the region of Catalonia, known more for the Cava than for the still wines. CX is produced using Cartoixa Vermell grapes, a variety better known as Xarello Rosado which comes from vineyards cultivated on clay-limestone soils. The grapes are destemmed, and vinified with a long maceration on the skins. Maceration. Refines for 7 months in steel tanks. The CX of Partida Creus is a real bombshell of freshness, a nose that plays on notes of white fruits, citrus fruits and aromatic herbs. A super rare and super good wine.

Service

We taste the CX at a temperature of 8/10 ° in a tulip glass. Wine to drink immediately but can give fantastic emotions if stored for a few years.

Pairing

To combine with a risotto with porcini mushrooms, some sushi, a delal mixed paella, to try with a tuna tuna with sesame and soy sauce.

Cellar: Pardida Creus

Partida Creus is a small family run business located in Bonastre, near Tarragona, in the denomination of Penedes. Behind Partida Creus we find Antonella Gerosa and Massimo Marchiori who in 2001 decided to leave Italy and move to Spain with the intention of making sustainable and quality viticulture with native Catalan grapes. Antonella and Massimo have in particular recovered and valorised two typical varieties that were in danger of disappearing: the garrut and the sumoll, but in the rows we also find other varieties such as the gra gros, the largat, the petit, the xarel-lo, the vermell cartoixa , 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.