Elemental 2022

Wayward Wines Verified independent store

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A finessed style of pet-nat that blends Cava staples Xarel-lo and Macabeo from two old plots in equal parts. After a brief two-day skin maceration, leaving the wine with a warm, go lden glow, it is transferred to bottle in its primary fermentation and left to rest on the lees for two years before being disgorged. It renders a wine of great depth that, beneath the citrus oils, chalky minerals and salinity, sits a rich base of brioche, with wonderful flinty notes of struck-match reduction on the nose and a lingering crackle of acidity. The bubbles are pinprick and fine, showing the quality potential of this highly accomplished ancestral method sparkler. Show more