Finca Parera Penedès 'Mala Herba' 2018 objects

Finca Parera Penedès 'Mala Herba' 2018 objectsXarel. lo (sha RELL oh) is Catalonia's finest white variety; it is a pithy, salty analogue to Chardonnay in France; in the Peneds it's frequently grown on rocky, calcareous soils, not far off from the limestone of Chablis. Our comrade Ruben Parera's top bottling of this fine white grape is stirring: elegant, layered, deeply fresh, with lots of both body and citrus rind to keep things interesting. One of our favorite and perhaps one of the grandest

Made with mirror polished stainless steel

apple and black pepper

it is exceptionally rare in that that it's in its 14th generation of consecutive ownership by the Amoreau family

is persistent

in the producers' own words

medium body and a flan and lemon-zest finish

as the power of it will be overwhelming if you're just looking for a glass of white wine

a portion of the wine is racked off into new oak barrels and aged for a year

This is biodynamically farmed

grown biodynamically in its home turf

like this one

Pinot Gris is here rendered closer to a red wine than to a white—in line with its Friulian neighbors just to the west of the Gorizia hills