2023 Celler Pardas "Sus Scrofa" Sumoll Penedès

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Celler Pardas started when two growers from Penedès, Ramon Parera, and Jordi Arnan, acquired an old estate called Can Comas in Alt Penedès, close to Sant Sadurni d’Anoia. The property surrounds an old medieval farm and spans 30 hectares of forest and other crops (mainly cereal) as well as the local grape varieties—Sumoll and Xarel-lo—that Ramon and Jordi planted for their wines. Ramon and Jordi are in the forefront of the varietal revolution happening in Penedès. Sumoll is not an easy grape to master—“the most masochistic grape there is”, says Jordi— but as the Sus Scrofa shows, Parera and Arnan have conquered its rusticity and are making a delicate, fresh, and immediate wine. The "Sus Scrofa" is 100% hand harvested Sumoll from four different plots of clay and chalk soils. 50% whole cluster, vinified in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts and fed by gravity. It is aged for 3 months before bottling.