SELECCIO ESCUMOSOS 1r　2022

SELECCIO ESCUMOSOS 1r　2022

Region: Spain Catalonia

Grape:  Cartucha (Xarello)

Category：Sparkling

Delicate foaming, the flavor of 60-year-old vines seeps in...

Produced solely from the juice that flows out under the weight of the grapes, without using a press. No complaints about the naturalness, taste, or cost-performance of any of Noumes' wines. I made an immediate decision after tasting this sparkling.With the fresh fruit flavor of apples and sharp acidity, combined with the minerality unique to this vineyard, the balance is exceptional. There is absolutely no instability despite being additive-free; it is an exquisite sparkling wine!*It is traditionally sealed with cork, and the wire cage is removed by hooking it with a sommelier knife before pulling out the cork. It's simple, but not the usual method.Low-temperature maceration in stainless steel tanks. 15 days of alcoholic fermentation. The lees are removed and juice from the same vineyard is added for secondary fermentation in the bottle. A minimum of 15 months of bottle aging. No added SO2.

The one on the right is the head of the family, Moises. This is a warm, family-run brewery.

[Producer information]

Moises is a man from an unknown village who carves out the future of ultra-natural.

La Nou de Gaia is a very unknown village in Catalonia.
4km from the sea, with mountains behind. It's a place where the wind blows all the time, and even in 2019, when there was an abnormal heatwave with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, the temperature was only a little over 30 degrees.
A field of white powder sand made from extremely pure limestone that has been broken down over many years. Connected to the microscopic details of minerals.
Currently, they own a total of 14ha of vineyards. In this region, the xarello, which is often used for kava, is called cartusha.
However, it has a completely different taste from chalero, which is made from cava.
In the fields of Nou Metz, cartusha matures slowly and slowly.
Therefore, the condensation of flavor and depth is extremely elegant.
Powdered minerals intertwine with it perfectly, developing a flavor unique to this brewery.

Brewed using gravity. There is no press machine!
It is brewed only by the free run that flows from the weight of the grapes.
All the seeds are destemmed and the grains are not crushed or crushed.
When placed in a tank, the bottom part collapses due to gravity and fermentation begins.

We first make a starter using healthy grapes grown in a field that does not use any SO2 or artificial yeast, and then we start fermentation after growing healthy natural yeast. Even though it is a sharp natural wine, we have persistently achieved a price that many people can enjoy.