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La Rural Claret · natural claret wine from Santes Creus (Alt Camp)
Minimal-intervention wine
Varieties80% Macabeu · 10% Sumöll · 10% Garnatxa
Altitude316 / 325 / 408 m · N-S
Maceration3 days on skins · fibreglass tank
Alcohol10.31% vol.

An old-style claret: 80% white Macabeo co-fermented with Sumoll and Garnacha in a three-day joint maceration. Rosy-copper colour, neither white nor red. Three plots between 316 and 408 metres. 10.31%, light and full of life.

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Light red, almost pink and transparent. Nose of red fruit, flowers and minerals. Delicate, very fresh palate, light-bodied, lively acidity, 10.3% alcohol. A claret in the classic sense: between white and red. La Rural blends white Macabeo (80%) with black Sumoll and Ull de Llebre. Xavi and Andreu Padró, fifth generation of grape growing in the Alt Camp.

Red-fruit jelly sweetsWatermelonA rustic herbal touch
Spanish tapasRoast chickenGrilled vegetables
Stony clay-limestone of Santes Creus

About this wine

La Rural's claret: 80% white Macabeo co-fermented with Sumoll and Garnacha in a three-day joint maceration, from three plots between 316 and 408 metres. The result is a copper-pink wine, neither white nor red, of only 10.31% vol., light and full of life. La Rural is Xavi and Andreu Padró's project in Santes Creus (Alt Camp, Tarragona): natural wines with skin maceration, hand harvest, spontaneous fermentation and no additives. Discover the grape varieties in our catalogue.

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