XL Ancestral - Partida Creus

XL Ancestral - Partida Creus

Refermented wine produced with the Catalan native vine Xarel • lo, Partida Creus is the estate of Massimo and Antonella which has become the oasis of the forgotten grape varieties of Catalonia. Wines produced in organic farming, of high purity, fresh, balanced and vinified naturally without handling and adding sulphites. XL Ancestral refers 10 months in bottle with its fine lees, and is very mineral and explosive, with exaggerated drinkability. It should be drunk with seafood, fish and white meat.

Service

We taste the XL Ancestral 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.