Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Espenyalluchs 2024 EARHARDT with garnet rim

with garnet rim

Forget the supermarket Malbec and big-brand Carménère

the 2020 reveals dark preserved fruits

65% Pinot Noir 35% Chardonnay

and richly flavoured with dissolving honey

Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Espenyalluchs 2024 EARHARDT with garnet rimOrganic. Biodynamic 100% Xarello. This is a single vineyard wine drawn from the plot called Espenyalluchs, a gently sloping parcel at 400msl with clay soil covered by small pebbles. Its a single hectare planted with a careful massale selection of the best vines from Solers original 1945 plot called Vinya dels Taus. The wine ferments and ages on the lees for nine months in the oldest 300l barrels in the cellar. Harvest was the first of September 2024;