Partida Creus 'TP' Catalonia Trepat 2022

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Partida Creus was founded by the Italian couple Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa, who left city life and an architecture practice behind to settle in the small village of Bonastre, in the Baix Penedès area of Tarragona, Catalonia. There they found abandoned vineyards planted with nearly-extinct native varieties and made it their mission to rescue these old vines and turn them into honest, natural wine. At Partida Creus everything is done by hand, from pruning the vines - with the help of a donkey and a mule - to spontaneous fermentation in the cellar, with no chemical products used at any stage; for them, Partida Creus is not just a winery but a way of understanding wine as a link between nature and the people who enjoy it. TP is made from 100% Trepat, a beautiful red variety typical of the Conca de Barberà. The hand-harvested grapes are destemmed, then macerated for 7 days with gentle pressing; fermentation takes place with the grapes' own wild yeast in 54-liter demijohns for one year, after which the wine moves into 300-liter French oak barrels for a further year. It is unfiltered and unclarified, and bottled by hand, containing only the grapes' natural sulfites with none added.