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Listen, Learn & Adapt

Avinyó
Petillant 2024
Vi d’Agulla
Xarel.lo 15%, Muscat de Frontignan 60%, Macabeo 25%
Organic, hand-madem artisanal sparkling wine house
Avinyonet del Penedès, Penedès, Catalonia, Spain
Esteve-Nadal family (latest gen: Xavier, Luis, Pedro Juan, and Mercé)

Starlight pale yellow with dainty bubbles. There’s scents of lemon/lime & actually Sprite, mandarin, apples, pears, and a ittle cane sugar mixed with honeysuckle. Everything I’m sniffing is here with I think mango & lychee, and a fun bubbly sizzle. Grab 2 bottles because you’re going to want to share this cheerful bottle filled with joy.

Pairs with Cheez-Its: yes please

The Esteve-Nadal family have a long viticultural history dating back to 1597, when the original family last name was the Fontanals but that all changed with a wedding in 1847, uniting Esperança Fontanals & Adjutori Esteve. BTW you know how you often hear about winemaking families being so passionate about their vines, land, estate, etc. Well, this family is passionate but also resourceful. They weathered the phylloxera epidemic along with losing their savings due to a bank collapse. Well, to salvage & keep moving forward Joan Esteve Marcé (1889) embarked to France to learn about grapes resistant to phylloxera, and upon return replanted one vineyard with “new American rootstock”. Now dubbed La Mirona (The Watcher) this plot was a new hope for not just them but also other local growers. Over the generations they continued to listen, learn, and quickly adapt. In another case of need when hailstorms brought them a few financially bad years they turned to the artistic endeavors of their matriarch…ceramic tiles, plates & murals that are still a beautiful part of their heritage and cava & vino success today. 🥂

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“Devilish Pants”

Birgit Wiederstein
Perlenspiel 2020
Brut Nature
Grüner Veltliner
Zero dosage, organic, biodynamic principles
Göttlesbrunn, Austria
Owner & winemaker: Birgit Wiederstein

Light gold with VERY active bubbles. Breathing in pears & golden delicious apples with I think a little honeydew & a citrus spark along with a bit of brioche. This is so tongue tingling! There’s a good blend of the scents with more lemon/lime/mandarin citrus sparkiness, crabapples, a little slate lick, and a chew of the wild growing sour grass from my childhood home, This is one bottle of happy fizz that leaves your lips vibrating and wanting more. Actually maybe if I’m lucky Santa will manage to fit one in my stocking this year.

Pairs with Cheez-Its: honestly it’s better solo

Birgit Eichinger, calls herself a “winemaking companion” in partnership with the vines, soil, the organisms living within, weather, and “Mother Nature”; and her ability to feel and sense this rhythm truly works magic. It’s like a gifted musician feeling the score as she plays what comes naturally to her. She’s very hands and feet on in all aspects from the cultivation, harvest, pressing, and one part I love is the cellar that she keeps tidy & clean. As she says on her site, “I like the peace and quiet in the cellar. Since I’m a one-woman winemaker here, I can devote all my senses to the winemaking process during the harvest: smelling, tasting, analyzing, listening, assessing, observing, and making decisions.” Her (and her mom Grete the distiller) site is pretty awesome and unique. You can find out that Brigit wears a size 42 shoe, as a child she loved “being allowed to eat spaghetti bolognese with your fingers”, and one of her favorite words is “Umteufelhosen” or in English “devilish pants”. This has my brain running now…what sort of devil pants and which wine pairs well with them? 😈🥂

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