LA RURAL MACABEU
2023
GRAPES: ~85% MACABEU, WITH MALVASIA DE SITGES, PARELLADA & VINYATER
SKIN CONTACT: 8 DAYS
REGION: ALT CAMP, CATALONIA, SPAIN
Producer: La Rural is the project of brothers Andreu and Xavi Padró, who left other careers in 2018 to make fresh, low-intervention wines on their family’s organic farm in Santes Creus, in Catalonia’s Alt Camp. Their roughly 24-year-old vines grow on clay-limestone soils at around 316 metres.
Vinification: A skin-contact Macabeu, rounded out with Malvasia de Sitges, Parellada, and Vinyater. Hand-harvested and macerated on the skins for eight days without disturbing the cap, then pressed in a vertical press to stainless steel, where it rests ten months. Unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulfur.
Tasting notes: light- to medium-bodied, citrus, green apple, dried herbs and almond, with a saline, gentle grip
Pairings: grilled prawns, grilled vegetables with allioli, Garrotxa
DRINK: NOW TO 2028
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