A California first—Lodi's Bokisch Vineyards picks Spanish Cava grapes, Macabeu, Paralleda and Xarel-lo. Read all about it in lodiwine.com, [https://www.lodiwine.com/blog/A-California-first-Lodi-s-Bokisch-Vineyards-picks-Spanish-Cava-grapes](https://www.lodiwine.com/blog/A-California-first-Lodi-s-Bokisch-Vineyards-picks-Spanish-Cava-grapes) #cavagrapes #macabeu #parallada #xarello #bokischwine #lodiwine #lodiwinecountry #randycaparosophotography

So here we go: #orangewine 100% #Macabeu from #Rasquera. Pinyolet Vinyaters. Labels only tell you 0.1% of the story, it's all in the content. A "brisat" as we say here in #Catalunya for orange wines: some serious maceration, indigenous yeast, and letting the grape mature to perfect ripeness (it takes nerves like in high noon). This wine is pure joy. Depth, flower petals, roses tossed over enchiladas. Totally addictive when married with slices of long cured Jamón. One bottle will never be enough.

#NaturalWine

#Malvasia, #Macabeu, #Cartoixà de Marina, Ull de Llebre (#Tempranillo) tasting session at Celler Sanromà and Celler del Cesc (Tanca els Ulls). All wines are made in the hills of the Alt Camp, north of #Tarragona.

What defines these wines is the rustic dry Mediterranean salinity which comes from the local calcareous, sandy soil, a reminder of the ancient seabed that once covered this area.

#Catalunya #WineTasting

Je ne suis pas un grand fan du céleri ( et c’est peu dire) mais il y en a dans mon panier de légumes donc fallait bien que je trouve quelque chose
Donc j’ai opté pour un filet mignon de porc sauce à l’orange, un fenouil glacé et caramélisé ainsi qu’un oignon au four accompagné d’un blanc du domaine Mas guallar sur du Macabeu dont on ressent toute la rondeur et la douceur #filetmignon #celerirave #oignon #macabeu #vinblanc #miamtodon #bouffe #food

The selection of the glass bottle is unfortunate and the label could do with a rehash BUT... this Vi Ranci made by Josep Dasca i Alba Vives is an absolute sensorial joy.

Vi Ranci is something totally unique and traditional which connects to the past; it was the best #wine of the house, jealously guarded by the grandfather and only offered to guests on very special occasions.

This dry and cloudy Ranci, made from #Macabeu and #Cartoixa, is part of the contents of a 220 litre oak barrel left behind in the 70's by Josep Dasca's grandfather and replenished using the Solera method. Only 200 bottles are released every year.

A mere sniff will brig up notes of cedar, fresh bread, orange marmalade and pressed olives, and this before it hits the palate where layers of toasted walnuts, long cured ham, campfire, arabica coffee and that singular zingy salty Mediterranean acidity congregate in one big choir.

Ideal as small a pre lunch / dinner drink as it make you crave food like an addict.

Nothing like #wine presented with a hand written label picked randomly from the cellar. A fantastic aromatic #Macabeu with an 8 month extended maceration in a clay vessel. It ended way too quick so you only get to see an empty bottle.

#Catalonia #RawWine #NaturalWine

Easy #Autumn #walk through the rolling #vineyards of the Alt Camp this afternoon. Most of the vine here are of the #Cartoixà, #Macabeu, #Parellada variety. Traditionally mass planted to supply the #Cava production in #Penedès. All this is now changing with each variety being appreciated in it's own right.

#Catalonia #Wine #Terroir #WineMaking #WineCountry #PhoneShot #DOTarragona

Have started using the #MemorableWine hashtag, one that I will use sparingly and only for wines that left and orgasmic imprint on my parietal lobe.

Like yesterday's 2021 Terme de Laureano 3 by Laureano Serres

#WineTasting #CatalanWines #Tarragona #Macabeu #NaturalWine #NoSulfites #NoDO #Catalonia #Epicure #Epicureanism

3] Couple this with Laureano's Terres de Guiu 1, a lush #Macabeu, which feels like a crème brûlée with a soft, perfectly integrated acid counterpoint.

Before you know, it they got you.