Type

White Wine

Appellation

Variety

100% Xarel·lo

Enric Soler writes: "In the Espenyalluchs plot, a gently sloping land at 400 meters above sea level, a hectare of grapevines are planted with a judicious massale selection of the best vine shoots of the Vinya dels Taus. All the mystical wisdom of the symbolic old vineyard is transferred onto one slope, under a supervision which combines intuition and experience. From the first vintage in 2013, the majesty of the grape is revealed and offers a profile of Xarel-lo that is both meditative and electric. The wine ferments and ages in the winery’s oldest barrels. Espenyalluchs is a wine that retains the unmistakable reflective character of the white wines made at the winery and aims to convey the purity of this variety."

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Espenyalluchs

Soil type

The soil is clay and is covered by pebbles.

Vineyard size0.91 ha

Exposition400 meters

Vinification

The grapes are hand-harvested. Fermentation with wild yeast.

ElevageAgeing on the lees for eight months in four and five-year-old 300L French oak barrels.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Additional info

Total production average2,986 bottles

More about
the producer

Enric Soler

Founded in 2004

4.5 hectares

With more than fifteen vintages under his belt, Enric Soler has definitively proven the grandiose potential of still Xarel.lo from Catalonia. Historically seen as the base wine for an ocean of Cava, Soler began in 2004 with a radically different approach, treating his native terroir and grapes as if they had the potential to make some of the world’s best white wines. It turns out that Soler was entirely correct, and today, his miniscule production of handcrafted wines are some of the most allocated bottles in Spain.

Soler began his career as a sommelier, winning the “Campeonato de España de Sommelier” award for best sommelier in Spain in 1997. While teaching at his wine academy in Barcelona, local producers would often bring him bottles to get his advice. After the loss o...