{"product_id":"cisteller-gris-xarel-lo-vermell","title":"Cisteller Gris Xarel.lo Vermell 2024","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCisteller Gris Xarel·lo Vermell 2024\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe pink-skinned mutation of Xarel·lo, pressed and left alone in steel for nine months to show exactly what its limestone soil tastes like.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrape Varietals \u0026amp; Region:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100% Xarel·lo Vermell — a naturally pink-skinned mutation of standard Xarel·lo — from a single block of 15-year-old vines at the family's El Sot property in Muntanyes d'Ordal, Penedès, Catalunya. Same extremely calcareous, limestone-clay soil as its sibling Xarel·lo bottling, but treated as its own separate expression rather than blended in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaste Profile:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flinty, smoky and a touch reductive — deliberately austere rather than fruity, with a narrow, marine, saline character that reads as an honest expression of the limestone soil rather than a crowd-pleasing style choice. Wine critic Luis Gutierrez scored the 2024 94 points for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, calling it 'expressive, clean and precise... narrow, marine and saline.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking Process:\u003c\/strong\u003e Whole-bunch pressed at low pressure with no maceration — despite the pink skins, this is made as a white, not an orange wine. Fermented entirely in stainless steel, then kept on its lees for nine months at cool temperature with bâtonnage in the early months to build texture without adding weight. Just 2,067 bottles made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sergi Canals grew up in Penedès; Jessica Madigan, American, met him as her lab partner at UC Davis — their first assignment was to deliberately spoil a wine with bacteria, and it came out glorious instead. They founded Cisteller in 2019 on 'mountain land that nobody wanted': vineyards Sergi's family held onto because they sat too high and too poor for the region's commercial, high-yielding vines. What they found instead was limestone-rich, low-pH soil they compare to Chablis and Champagne. In 2024, Cisteller became the 13th winery admitted to Corpinnat — the breakaway growers' collective that left Cava behind to guarantee estate-grown, hand-harvested, site-specific sparkling wine, audited unannounced during harvest to prove it. 'Cisteller' means 'basket weaver,' after Sergi's family trade; today the couple farm their great-grandfather's vineyards with their own two children in tow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cisteller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206034227298,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/1339\/1970\/files\/Cisteller-Gris.png?v=1787012024","url":"https:\/\/boundbywine.com\/products\/cisteller-gris-xarel-lo-vermell","provider":"BoundbyWine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}