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NATURAL WINES BY ELS VINYERONS
Els Vinyerons is a Penedès project from two winemakers with very different backgrounds. Amós Bañeres, a former pharmacist, has made natural wine since 2011 and also bottles wines under his own name, while Alex Ruiz Masach comes from a family with a large Cava house. Together they work around 10 hectares, and the Xarel-lo for their sparkling grows on east-facing clay-limestone slopes at about 250 metres.
The wines ferment with native yeasts, with no added sulphites, and the prices stay very fair. Pregadeu is one of the few natural Cavas around: Xarel-lo, bottle fermented with native yeasts and Brut Nature. Lluerna shows Xarel-lo as a fresh, slightly creamy still wine, so you can taste the grape without bubbles. Saltamarti is the red, made from Ull de Llebre, the local name for Tempranillo, and it is an easy, well-priced bottle for the table.