Succes Vinicola La Trompa 2021 20L 10.5%

Succes Vin?cola

Wine: La Trompa

Region: Conca de Barber?

Grape: Trepat

Colour: Red

Alcohol: 10.5%

Size: 75cl

 Albert and Mariona have built a cult following for their beautifully packaged wines in bottle. A salty and focused white wine made from 40-year-old Parellada vines planted in calcareous soils at 500m above sea level. 

Producer

Albert Canela and Mariona Vendrell started making wine in 2011 when they were just twenty. Based in the hills of Conca de Barber?, southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia and with investment from the local region, the couple farm organically and have a network of old-time growers from whom they buy their grapes. 

Catalonia's wine history is deeply and fundamentally linked to Cava and cheap ros?. This is no criticism; over-commercialisation has been the catalyst in many regions for brave, dynamic and pioneering young winegrowers to start swimming against the tide. 

Albert and Mariona are two of those winegrowers: young, entrepreneurial, respecting of their environment and champions of indigenous grapes. They've chosen to take a different path with the Trepat, Parellada and Ull de Llebre varieties that have sustained the region for generations and the couple produce a range of pure, vibrant still wines that have become the new benchmark for the Catalonian wine.  

Farming and Winemaking

Bush-trained Trepat, calcareous clay. A large, thin-skinned grape similar to Poulsard or Schiava, Trepat produces light-bodied, aromatic reds reminiscent of Jura reds. Spontaneous fermentation is stainless steel, just 3 days skin contact, aged 5 months on the fine lees in stainless steel and kegged with zero sulphites added.