Autocton Xarello

Albert Jane, native of El Vendrell, is a young winemaker who has family in the wine world since 1914, he left his land in 2006, Baix Penedès, to the DO Montsant and then to the DOQ Priorat and now returns home to begin his most vital and personnel wine project. This project in an old traditional Catalan house “Masia” of the XVI century, Mas Vilella, in La Bisbal del Penedès, a wonderful old farmhouse with a lovely old wine cellar. It is a vital project to recover and dignify indigenous (autochthonous) varieties of the area near where Albert was born... sumoll, xarel·lo red, Malvasia de Sitges have a special role. Autocton means autochthonous, native, indigenous… like Albert and all the local varieties are native from the area around. All vineyards are around the cellar in the province of Tarragona, 60 km in the south of Barcelona city, in the area of Baix Penedès and Alt Camp, so it is a varietal wine without DO, no Origen identification. They are vines that are not far from the wonderful Mediterranean Sea (20 km away) and always with the powerful Sierra del Montmell sight. The vineyards are located in very poor clay and calcareous soils in an altitude of 300- 500 meters. Autòcton White is a white wine made from very old vines native of 100% Xarel·lo. The wine is fermented and aged for 10 months, 20% of the wine in large French oak barrels of 300 and 400 lit. and part in stainless steel tanks in their own lees doing batonage each week.