Pardas La Peça Coll del Guix

Robert Parker The Wine Advocate / Luis Gutiérrez

They found a very old vineyard planted with Sumoll in the 1960s outside the limits of Penedès that they started working in 2022 and shared with Roc Gramona to produce one wine each from the same vines. Theirs is the 2022 La Peça Coll del Guix, a paler, more delicate and elegant expression of the grape from blue marl soils. Sumoll seems to be a very elastic variety, a Mediterranean grape that expresses the place in different ways; it likes and needs heat but transmits freshness. Here, it's closer to a Ploussard from Jura than Burgundy or Barolo. There is an herbal twist here, bright fruit and flowers, and it shows completely different from the others, with more finesse and elegance, very fine tannins, really fine-boned, serious and subtle. The full clusters were foot trodden and fermented in concrete vats, then the wine matured in 500-liter barrels and concrete eggs for six months. It's super balanced and has the elements to develop in bottle. A Mediterranean grand cru? 1,819 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2023.