Winery:  Cosmic Vinyaters                                        

Region: Catalonia - Empordà

Vintage: 2021     

Bottle:  75cl                                                

Grape Varieties: 80% White Carinyena, 15% Red Carinyena and 5% Grey Carinyena

Type:  Red young Wine

Alcohol Content:  12% Vol

Serving Temperature:  12º - 14º

The last addition to join the Cosmic family is this Encarinyades, a single vineyard wine without added sulfites made from the blend of the three Carinyenas from the same plot. This is a wine hard to classify as red or white. With this wine, his creator, Salvador Batlle, aims to recover and apply the generic patrimony of the white Carinyena, a historic variety in the DO Empordà, while experimenting with modernity and modernity.

This wine is made from a single plot in the Agullana municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà (Girona). The first gapes from the young white Carignan vines planted in 2014 are used to make this wine, and they are blended with grapes from the oldest red Carignan vines and grapes sourced from the re-planted grey Carignan vines.

Vinification:

The wine is organically farmed following biodynamic principles, working with sacred geometry. Manual harvesting follows the Byodinamic calendar.

Vinifies the three varieties together in clay amphora with indigenous yeasts, followed by ageing with its lees in clay amphoras. SO2 < 10mg/l.

Tasting Notes: 

Complex nose with attractive notes of red fruits. Fresh entry on the palate with just the right level of acidity over a mineral background and a light mouthfeel.

THE PROJECT

Cosmic Vinyaters is the project of Salvador Batlle, the alma mater behind this project, and part of a new generation of winemakers who are passionate, enthusiastic, and talented young people with the aim of producing small-crafted quantities of excellent wines with their own unique identity, while totally respecting the values of the fruit. Motivated by his philosophy, Salvador employs the viticulture practices of organic farming using biodynamic principles and minimun intervention that are respectful of the environment.

Cosmic Vinyaters produces its wine in two very distinct landscapes of the Catalan geography, in the Alt Empordà, where it worships the native varieties, and in the Baix Penedès, where it works and cultivates native varieties together with foreign varieties well suited to the terroir.