Partida Creus CX Cartoixa Vermell

The CX of Partida Creus is a real bombshell of freshness, a nose that plays on notes of white fruits, citrus fruits and aromatic herbs as well as rhubarb, strawberry, peach iced tea and papaya. A super rare and super good wine.

Cartoixa Vermell, a pink-skinned variety better known as Xarello Rosado an almost forgotten varietal. This wine spends 90 days on skins.

Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerona are an Italian couple from Piedmont. Both of them architects who initially moved to Barcelona for that reason. Around the year 2000, they moved out to the country in search of a slower lifestyle. They settled in the Massís de Bonastre (Baix Penedés) characterised by its clay and limestone soils. There they started farming all kinds of local foodstuffs but had trouble finding wines made in the same style so they started making their own, recovering old vines of local grape varietals.

In most cases, these vineyards were close to abandoned. Whenever they find a new vineyard, they’ll go to the nearby town, find out who the owner is and approach them to buy or at least farm the vineyard, organically. People think they’re crazy for doing this as they are very old, low yielding vineyards and in most cases, obsolete grape varietals. Some have been disqualified from D.O. for lack of colour, as was the case with Sumoll, others were never even accepted. Now they’re known as the crazy Italians making incredible natural wines with the grapes that all of the locals had written off in exchange for the more “international” varietals.

Partida Creus CX Cartoixa Vermell