Pricing Options:
- Bottle: £9.75
- Case (12 Bottles): £117.00
Airam Garnacha (50cl) NV Ampurdan-Costa Brava
Producer: Espelt Viticultors
Tasting Notes:
With an orange tinted cherry colour, it has a profound aroma of baked apples, vanilla, coco and tobacco. It has flavours of ginger, marmaled and marzipan. What a delight! and quite unique.With such wonderful flavours in abundance, this dessert wine will suit a really savoury apple, plum or apricot tart. We also suggest, for the brave, partnering with rocquefort or similar tangly blue cheese. It will of course make a wonderful after dinner treat, just on its own and just the right side of cool.
Grape Variety: Garnacha & Red Lledoner
ABV: 15%
Country/Region: Spain
This mild, windswept (the famous tramontana wind) and largely coastal Catalan DO now comprises just under 2000 hectares of vineyards and 39 wineries, lying in north east Gerona/Girona. This area has over the last few years attracted much interest and investment.
Espelt viticultors is a family enterprise operative since 1910 and
indeed its oldest vineyards, consisting of black and grey Garnacha
together with Cariñena, planted on slate, gravel, and granite soils
(Saulo) near Rosas and the now legendary El Bulli restaurant, date back
to this time.
In the year 2000, however, the family – whose considerable wealth is the
result of their agricultural machinery business – decided to build
themselves a modern winery and up their land-holdings to a total of some
200 hectares, dotted around this beautiful area of many Natural Parks
where all self-respecting moneyed Catalans have their summer houses.
Today, therefore, with oenologist/biologist daughter Ana Espelt at the
helm, they vinify on average a million kilos of grapes, and with their
17 different varieties, make over 10 different styles.
Aided by a real grasp of design (the labels are created by the famous
designer Mariscal who developed the mascot for the Barcelona Olympics) –
this is after all, Salvador Dalí country – 50% of their sales are in
export markets and word continues to spread.
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