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2023 Celler Pardas "Sus Scrofa" Sumoll Penedès

2023 Celler Pardas "Sus Scrofa" Sumoll Penedès

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Review Date: 05/2025

The nose of the 2023 Sus Scrofa is all wild strawberries and flowers with some herbs thrown in to complete a complex but easy to understand red produced exclusively with Sumoll. They feel they have achieved what they were looking for, with the experience of 25 years, in a very good year for Sumoll, a grape that loves heat, and the grapes ripened slowly. The grapes were very small and looked like a Pinot Noir that delivered a balanced wine like never before, with 12.06% alcohol and a pH of 3.35. It has a fine-boned palate of a superb Mediterranean red, elegant, nothing rustic about it. And it's a real bargain. 12,800 bottles produced. It was kept in concrete for three months. (LG)

Price: $24.99
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Notes

Celler Pardas started when two growers from Penedès, Ramon Parera, and Jordi Arnan, acquired an old estate called Can Comas in Alt Penedès, close to Sant Sadurni d’Anoia. The property surrounds an old medieval farm and spans 30 hectares of forest and other crops (mainly cereal) as well as the local grape varieties—Sumoll and Xarel-lo—that Ramon and Jordi planted for their wines. Ramon and Jordi are in the forefront of the varietal revolution happening in Penedès. Sumoll is not an easy grape to master—“the most masochistic grape there is”, says Jordi— but as the Sus Scrofa shows, Parera and Arnan have conquered its rusticity and are making a delicate, fresh, and immediate wine. The "Sus Scrofa" is 100% hand harvested Sumoll from four different plots of clay and chalk soils. 50% whole cluster, vinified in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts and fed by gravity. It is aged for 3 months before bottling.

Product Details

Origin: Penedes, Spain

Type/Varietal: Other Red Wines

SKU: #1935555

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