Last week, Montau de Sadurni, wine producers near Barcelona, started harvesting the xarel.lo grapes, important ingredient for their cava. Export manager Barbara Siemianiuk told me that the grapes looked much better and healthier than last year. There will be a lesser quantity of grapes, because it has rained less during the summer; the grapes have however far more flavour. The harvest will continue untill the middle of this week.
The xarel.lo grapes are harvested by hand, because the vineyards are to old to work in with machines.
Barbara wrote more on the harvest at the Montau de Sadurni blog.
Montau de Sadurni makes traditional cavas with xarel.lo, macabeu and parellada. Annual cava production is 40.000 bottles. They prefer to keep their production ‘small but fine’. At this moment my bottles of Brut Nature and Brut Nature Gran Reserva are on their way from Can Sadurni to Utrecht.
So the story continues soon with impression of how the cava’s taste.
In the mean time, next to the harvest, the work in the cellars on the cava’s of last year continues! End of August, Barbara filmed the removing of the yeast at the top of the bottle. Read about it and see her film on Montau de Sadurni’s blog.
This is the second part of a series on the cava’s of Montau de Sadurni. The first part was published on September 9th.
