Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Improvisacio 2024 CS20230713 and the wine that emerges

and the wine that emerges is honeyed and exotic on the nose but tightly knit on the palate

The grapes for this wine average 45 years of age

A blend of fruit from nine different vineyards in Cuis

and zero new oak let the place speak clearly

Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Improvisacio 2024 CS20230713 and the wine that emergesXarel lo built Cava's reputation and then got treated like a workhorse. Enric Soler treats it like a great grape instead, and he's spent two decades proving he's right. Improvisacio pulls from three biodynamically farmed parcels, direct pressed and fermented spontaneously in Austrian Stockinger barrels and concrete eggs, then aged nine months. This is a still white wine, not a sparkler, and it's the most persuasive argument anyone makes for Xarel lo