Oriol Artigas El Rall 2022 750ml

Vinification Method
The grapes were harvested by hand, destemmed, and
macerated on the skins for 3 days, then pressed. Aged in
80% stainless steel and 20% used French oak barrels for
11 months on the lees before bottling without fining,
filtering, or sulfur addition.
Oriol Artigas, an Alella native and trained enologist,
started his project of making non- interventionist wines
in 2011. His over-arching philosophy is to “cultivate the
vineyards in the most natural and least interventionist
way possible, to allow the grapes to express in the most
intense way the landscape from which they come.” He
works about 12 hectares in total, mostly of old vines. He
allows vegetation to grow between the vines, prunes very
little, and works the vineyards primarily along the lunar
calendar. In the winery, fermentations are completely
spontaneous, aging is primarily done in steel vats, and
sulfur is never used at any point in his process. The
vineyards of Alella are essentially the vineyards of
Barcelona, located just north of the city along the coast
of the Mediterranean. The primary soil type is a kind of
white granite, locally called
Sauló, and the main grape
grown here is Pansa Blanca (the local clone of Xarel- lo)
with a whole slew of other grape varieties inter-planted as
well