2022 Celler La Vinyeta "Pipa", Emporda, Catalunya, SpainABOUT THIS WINE La Vinyeta collaborates with the Mona Foundation to create wines in the conservation of primates. This organization is dedicated to the custody and recovery of animals, mainly chimpanzees and macaques. Each vintage they create two monovarietal wines from varieties recovered in the Empord, monestrell and malvasia. Both wines are illustrated with animals from the Foundation that also give the name to the vintage. Two wines, a white one,

ABOUT THIS WINEThe António is produced from very old vineyards of the Vital grape variety (autochthonous) from the North Atlantic Coast of Lisboa

they are firm believers in dry farming

coopers and winemakers

while Mathieu & Jean-Baptiste are responsible for the marketing and sale of the wines

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Indigenous yeast

he has strived to balance nature’s expression with a delicate

is aged entirely in demi-muid from 1-3 years old

tasting through and chalking each barrel

In Catalonia

the modern facility leads us to believe this is a new operation

typically using whole clusters