Celler 9+, Mèdol Selecció Garnatxa Ancestral Pet Nat, Tarragona, Spain

About Celler 9+ : Moisès Virgili makes wines without additives or preservatives, from vineyards grown in organic agriculture located in La Nou de Gaià, in the region of El Tarragonès. He doesn’t use sulfites, ascorbic, stabilisers or clarifiers.

Vineyards and vinification: Vineyards grown in organic agriculture located in La Nou de Gaià, municipality of Tarragona, about 4 km in a straight line to the Mediterranean Sea. The sea breeze, called Marinada, which in the summer months begins to blow around ten in the morning, protects us from excess heat that allows a magnificent and constant ripening of the grapes, avoiding the over-ripening of the grapes grown in climates. more interiors. The soils are generally low-fertility sandy loam. Once harvested, the grapes are peeled and stored in stainless steel tanks to begin maceration for 9 days at a temperature of between 22 and 24ºC. Once the maceration is over, the grapes are pressed, separating the wine from low pressures from the high pressure one called “press wine”. This low pressure wine is intended for making Mèdol Selecció wine. The wine remains in stainless steel tanks for 9 months and the lees are mixed once a week to obtain softness and fat and to prevent the reduction of the wine. After these months, the wine is bottled. They have not added any clarifiers, or stabilizers, or sulfur or substitutes.

Description: This wine offers generous notes of red and black fruits (cherries, blackberries, blueberries), structured with marked tannins. Lots of structure and a long aftertaste. Its lack of added sulfites and remnants of sugars makes it a very suitable wine for people sensitive to sulfur or sensitive to the consumption of alcoholic beverages.