2022 - Nuria
2022 - Nuria
An assemblage of two macerated fermentations: heady with stone fruits and crushed petals, over a lick of briney green olive.
Cuvée: Nuria
Style: Still
Colour: Skins
Grapes/Blend: Moscatell d'Alexandria, Xarel-Lo
ABV: 11.8%
Vintage: 2022
Winemaking: Part Xarel·lo from the Sant Joan Samora parcel, alongside Muscat d´Alexandria from Torrelles de Foix - El Penedès at 320m altitude on sandy/clay soils. Two de-stemmed & crushed fermentations separate by variety: Muscat on skins for two weeks, Xarel·lo on skins for three weeks. Both pressed off together into stainless steel, naturally cold settled over winter. Bottled in early spring with no additions.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Sandy / Clay soils
Lucy Chilvers organically farms 4.5 hectares in the El Penedès, Catalunya - making dazzling expressions of stubborn old vines grown at up to 400m elevation on clay-limestone. Lucy's journey in wine has taken her from restaurants in London and Brighton to the course at Plumpton, to working alongside Sasa & Ivana Radikon in Friuli before eventually finding a home in Catalunya. Through her four parcels, she works organically with a little sulphur and a handful of biodynamic treatments. In the cellar, she makes no additions.