- Region
- Katalonien, Spanien
- Plats
- Penedès, Sant Martí Sarroca »
- Vinmakare
- Amós Bañeres och Alex Ruíz
- Info
- Els Vinyerons, Sant Martí Sarroca
This joint venture between Amós Bañeres and Alex Ruiz started in 2014.
Amós, the pharmacist that got fed up with Barcelona and medicines and started to make his own wine 2011 and now divide his time between his own project and Els Vinyerons. Alex, the winemaker that’s been making cava for his family vinery, has this as his ‘project by heart’ where he spends all his spare time. Their philosophy is to offer natural wine that’s easy to understand and affordable, to introduce ‘normal’ people to this world and also to show what expressions you can get out of the indigenous varieties from the region.
They have 10 hectares spread over three vineyards.
Penedès is an old river bottom and has very complex, interesting both sandy, loamy and calcareous soils with fossilized oysters.
They do all vinification without any use of sulphur or other additives, and have their own peculiar way to make very interesting, affordable wines that are ready to drink pretty early but still have some serious structure, elegance and finesse. They make sure to have some of the previous vintage saved, so after alcoholic fermentation they blend the recent vintage with the older one that has spent a year on old French oak.
It’s a great trick!