Can Sumoi Xarel-lo 2023

The 2023 Xarel-lo "Serra de L'Home" has a clean and bright color denoting youth, and a crisp, clean, precise palate with mellow acidity. It's light, fresh and very balsamic, with intense notes of green apple, pear, herbs, camphor, bay leaf and even mint, with a subtle mineral finish. Medicinal and pungent, full of lime zest and sea spray.

100% Xarel-lo, sourced from 45-85 year-old vines planted in poor clay-limestone soil at 400m altitude in Costers de Montmell, Penedès. The grapes are cultivated according to biodynamic principles, manually harvested and pressed in the cellar. Fermented with indigenous yeasts with minimal intervention, 80% aged in stainless steel tanks and 20% aged in concrete four months on the lees. The wine remains in stainless steel tanks for 12 months until it is finally bottled without fining or filtering. Minimal sulfur at bottling, certified organic.

Can Sumoi is the high altitude and low intervention project from Pepe Raventós of the celebrated Raventós i Blanc winery. Can Sumoi focuses entirely on still wine and mono-varietal ancestral method sparklers made from indigenous, mountaintop varieties. The stunning 400-hectare estate of Can Sumoi sits at over six hundred meters of altitude in the Serra de l’Home mountain range in Spain’s northeastern Penedès region.