Pardas '‘Sus Scrofa’
Sumoll, 2023
Penedès > Catalunya > ES
Some say the grape Sumoll is an indigenous, untamable beast, much like the native boar that runs rampant through vineyards across Catalunya. Jordi and Ramon celebrate their boar companions with a hunt. They then roast the beast for their friends and harvest workers alike in ritual fashion to honor it and the harmony he brings to the vine and spirit of the wine. As the Sus Scrofa shows, the Pardas boys have conquered its rusticity and are making a delicate, fresh, and immediate wine to be enjoyed during this transitional season. Certified Organic.
Sumoll, 2023
Penedès > Catalunya > ES
Some say the grape Sumoll is an indigenous, untamable beast, much like the native boar that runs rampant through vineyards across Catalunya. Jordi and Ramon celebrate their boar companions with a hunt. They then roast the beast for their friends and harvest workers alike in ritual fashion to honor it and the harmony he brings to the vine and spirit of the wine. As the Sus Scrofa shows, the Pardas boys have conquered its rusticity and are making a delicate, fresh, and immediate wine to be enjoyed during this transitional season. Certified Organic.
Sumoll, 2023
Penedès > Catalunya > ES
Some say the grape Sumoll is an indigenous, untamable beast, much like the native boar that runs rampant through vineyards across Catalunya. Jordi and Ramon celebrate their boar companions with a hunt. They then roast the beast for their friends and harvest workers alike in ritual fashion to honor it and the harmony he brings to the vine and spirit of the wine. As the Sus Scrofa shows, the Pardas boys have conquered its rusticity and are making a delicate, fresh, and immediate wine to be enjoyed during this transitional season. Certified Organic.
Grape: 100% Sumoll
ABV: 11%
The Story: Friends Ramon Parera and Jordi Arnan acquired an old estate called Can Comas in Alt Penedès, close to Sant Sadurni d’Anoia and thus Cellar Pardas was born. The property surrounds an old medieval farm and spans 30 hectares of forest and other crops (mainly cereal grains) as well as the local grape varieties—Sumoll and Xarel-lo—that Ramon and Jordi planted for their wines. From the start the work on the land focused on a holistic approach; they manage the forest surrounding the vineyards as well as the land bordering them to create a whole agrarian ecosystem and live at the property. Many biodynamic principles are followed: the vines are dry-farmed, and the clay-limestone rich soils are not plowed to avoid erosion and foster a thriving microbial community. They regularly use ground vegetation, and no synthetic products nor pesticides are utilized.
100% hand harvested Sumoll from four different plots of clay and chalk soils, the oldest of which is 70 years old. 50% whole cluster, vinified in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts and fed by gravity (no pumps!). Aged for 3 months. Unfined, unfiltered.
Personality: This swine wine is dry as hell, there isn’t any sediment or challenging characteristics or risky business up in here. Just pure, uncut, garnet colored, medium weight fall wine for your drinking pleasure.
Harmony: It’s tannic, tobacco-y and pairs immaculately with you guessed it - all things PORK. Or if you are not a meat eater, enjoy with the pork of vegetables - mushrooms.