Vinya de Cabra

Parellada on clay

Parellada is the most delicate of the Penedès trio: light, floral, low-alcohol wines. That is why I love it for bubbles. Here it grows on clay, which holds water and spares the grapes some of the summer stress.

How I farm it

Biodynamically, with no synthetic products at all. I protect the vines with horsetail and nettle, trichoderma that I grow myself, and preparations 500 and 501. For two years now I have used almost no copper or sulphur.

I prune in winter, remove extra shoots by hand in spring and harvest by hand, in small crates, with friends. Every treatment goes into the field notebook: what, how much and why.

Field notebook →

What it makes

Voyage Voyage: direct-press Parellada made by the ancestral method. I bottle it before fermentation ends and the bubbles make themselves. Soft, light and thirst-quenching, at 9% alcohol.