Escabeces

This project began when René Barbier Meyer (of Priorat and Monstant fame) was approached by his friend Oriol Pérez de Tudela, a farmer from Tarragona, to see if he’d be interested in making a wine from several rare parcels of 65-year-old Cartoixà Vermell, a pink-skinned mutation also known as ‘red’ Xarel.lo, clustered around an old lieux-dit called ‘Les Escabeces’. Thus, instead of disappearing into the hopper of some anonymous Cava cuvée, these grapes found new life as one of the most exciting new entries in Catalunya’s oranage-wine scene. Oriol is now soley in charge of the project and has added a new wine to the lineup, “Vila Abellus”, also sourced from the local vineyards. Each wine is a striking expression of a rare native grape of unmistakable Mediterranean origin.