Venus la Universal 2019, DO Montsant, Catalunya, Spain

Venus is the yearly result of our search for beauty. An attempt to understand the femininity, the
land, through a bottle of wine: Carinyena and Garnatxa. Mystery and seduction, speech and
wealth, peace, patience, balance and passion. Plots and soil: We work with 4 parcels of Garnatxa and Carinyena old vines located between Pinyana and Crossos. A vineyard located in the ridge with both North and South sides clay-calcareous soil, deep and wet to allow slow and long ripening. Grapes are harvested by plots. They are selected and processed separately, but finally we try to do
the fermentation all together if the vintage allow us. Grapes are processed as whole berries and
some stems from Garnatxa. Fermentation starts with wild native yeast. We apply slightly pigeage
during fermentation and maceration, that takes around 21 and 28 days in wood tanks. Venus is
aged in a 4500l wood vat for 6 months and 12 more months in 2500l foudres. Composition: Garnatxa 40%, Carinyena 60%. The Carinyena for the 2019 Venus la Universal suffered from a heat wave of extreme temperatures, and ripening took a long timne; the wine has ripeness and a bit of heat, but the wine kept very good acidity. It shows in the palate some of the sweetness of Garnacha and the tension of Carinyena.