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NATURAL WINES BY LA DESPEINADA
La Despeinada is Alex and Petra, a French and Austrian couple farming around Bot, a village in Terra Alta in western Catalonia. Before starting out in 2016, they learned from Laureano Serres of Mendall, a local natural wine pioneer. They work about 2.5 hectares of Garnatxa Blanca, Garnatxa Negra, Garnatxa Peluda, Macabeu, Carinyena and Moscatel, some vines up to 90 years old, on limestone with patches of clay and fossil-rich sand called panal.
Grapes are picked by hand and ferment with wild yeasts in steel tanks or amphorae. Nothing is added in the cellar, sulphur included. Claviento is pure Garnatxa Blanca with a short spell on the skins. It's Now Or Never is a juicy Garnatxa Negra with a couple of days of skin contact before a few months in steel.
