Litrona Tempranillo

A rosé / clarete style wine

Grape 100% Tempranillo

Vintage 2022

Producer Partida Creus

Region Baix Penedes (Spain)

Story Massimo and Antonella have been making wine in the Baix Penedes region for about 20 years. There they started recovering old vines of local grape varietals. In most cases, the vineyards were close to abandoned. Whenever they find a new vineyard, they’ll go to the nearby town, find out who the owner is and approach them to buy or at least farm the vineyard, organically of course. People thought they were crazy for doing this as they are very old vineyards and in most cases, obsolete grape varietals. Some have been disqualified from D.O. for lack of color, others were never even accepted. Now they’re known as the crazy Italians making incredible natural wines, without additives of any kind and of course they had to make a Litrona.

Hand harvested, grapes get short maceration and go into stainless steel tanks with indigenous yeasts. Short fermentation and aged in stainless tanks before bottling zero/zero. And why that label? Tempranillo is known in Catalunya as ull the llebre, which means eye of the hare.