Oriol Artigas 'Sammy' Negre 2023

Producer: Oriol Artigas
Region: Catalonia, Spain
Varietals:  Trepat
Viticulture: Organic
Category: Red
Size: 750ml

Hailing from Vilassar de Dalt in the heart of the Alella appellation, Oriol Artigas actually came to winegrowing serendipitously. He originally wanted to be a chemist (ala Jules Chauvet), but after working a harvest in Penedès, Oriol realized that a career in a laboratory wasn’t for him and enrolled in an enology program soon after.  Located just 15 kilometers north of Barcelona, he works about 12 hectares in total, mostly of old vines. He allows vegetation to grow between the vines, prunes very little, and works the vineyards primarily along the lunar calendar. In the winery, fermentations are completely spontaneous, aging is primarily done in steel vats, and sulfur is never used at any point in his process.  

Sammay Negre  is 100% Trepat from young vines on sandy clay soils around Conca de Barberá, hand-harvested and fermented whole cluster. About a week on the skins before aging in tank. Unfined, unfiltered and no added SO2.