Winery: En Nùmeros Vermells                  

Region:  Catalunya - D.O.Q. Priorat

Vintage: 2021                                    

Bottle: 75cl                                                    

Grape Varieties: 100% White Grenache

Type:  Dry White Wine

Alcohol Volume: 14.5% Vol

Serving Temperature:  10º - 12º

Production:

The Garnatxa Blanca del Carlos is a very special white wine made from a white Grenache vineyard owned by Carlos Cubells, a local winegrower and close friend of Silvia. The plot is located in the municipality of Poboleda, on a coster planted more than 60 years ago at 600 metres above sea level with excellent exposure.

Harvested by hand and fermented slowly at controlled temperature in both oak barrels and amphora. Ageing on its own lees for approximately 5 months. Small production of 1980 bottles.

Tasting Notes:

Fresh and clean. Aromas reminiscent of anisette, smoke, and flower petals. Good complexity and depth with generous fruit, flavour, freshness, and minerality. Finishing with good acidity and freshness.

Notes: Drink over the next 3–4 years.

En Números Vermells is Silvia Puig’s individual project; she is a young but very experienced winemaker with a formidable CV when it comes to winemaking and belongs to a new generation of winemakers in the Priorat. She makes amazing wines in small quantities and in a very artisanal way.

In 2008, she began her project by making just one single barrel in a small garage converted for this purpose in the village of Torroja; today, she has her own place in the village of Gratallops where she produces the wines. All of the fruit is carefully selected from several plots staggered in Costers (a Catalán word meaning steep slopes) and terraces with soils dominated by the characteristic “llicorella” or slate in various locations around the Priorat. She cultivates some plots with very old vines, some of which are 100-year-old vines, from which she produces her signature wine, "En Numeros Vermells Centenary Carinyenas".