Mas Candi Quatre Xarel.los 2021

Mas Candi Quatre Xarel.los 2021

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Mas Candí QX Quatre Xarel·los is a blend of Xarel.los from four old vineyards: Les Gunyoles (La Pura vineyard), Font-Rubí (Mas Rossell vineyard), el Pla del Penedés (la Angeleta vineyard) and Subirats (Cal Martí vineyard). The grape must ferments and ages for 8 months in four different types of barrel: Chestnut (bringing subtlety and helping preserve the concentration of fruit), Acacia (bringing a citrus freshness), French oak (spices) and American oak (ripeness and intensity).

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Mas Candi

Mas Candi is a boundary-pushing winery located in the Penèdes region of north-eastern Spain. It was started up in 2006 by four viticulture and winemaking students from France. They are a tiny winemaking venture that use solely their own grapes from their own organically-farmed vineyards. Their flagship grape is Xarel.lo, one of the most under-rated white grapes in all of Spain. They have made it their life's work over the last decade to produce serious wines from autochthonous varieties.

 

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Xarel-lo

Xarel.lo is one of Spain's best-kept secrets when it comes to white wines. If it is known at all, it is as one of the main varieties in the production of the best sparkling wines in Spain. 

 

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Penedes

Penèdes is the vast region in northeastern Spain. The fair majority of the Penedes' claim to fame it from the "Champagne of Spain": Cava. Cava is a sparkling wine that is made in exactly the same way as Champagne (bottle-fermented/methode traditionelle) just with Spanish grape varietals. Those white grape varietals are: Xarel.lo, Parellada and Macabeo and Tempranillo and Garnacha can be used for the roses.