Vinyes Tortuga Libertango 2020

Producer: Vinyes Tortuga

Libertango

️ Girona, Alt-Empordà, Spain

Vinyes Tortuga

Chenin Blanc, Macabeo, Parellada, Garnacha Blanca

2020

️  11.5%

  White wine

Two days of maceration and after pressing the wine finishes fermentation in wood, where it then remains for 6 months. The company’s first white wine two years after planting the vines. The harvest was brought forward to avoid mold and wild boars and this helped to keep the acidity alive despite the fermentation in wood. Only 600 bottles produced.

Summer fruit, almost exotic, white and yellow flowers, aromatic herbs, Mediterranean scrub and great minerality

Very fresh but not unbalanced, medium bodied and easy to drink, the finish is delicate

Serving temperature 10°-12°

Seafood appetizers

Fresh despite the barrel fermentation, surprising

Girona, Alt-Empordà

From Amsterdam to Catalunya, Jurriaan and Dido are a couple with a crazy passion for natural wine, who in 2018 realize their dream, that of owning a wine cellar, in 2018.

Theirs is an incredible story, Jurriaan is an engineer, he was responsible for a tourist agency, Dido is a Cultural Anthropologist researcher who studied in South Africa at the Swartland Independent Producers, a group of natural producers who were an inspiration for the couple.

From there various experiences in France and Catalunya, up to the North Eastern region of Alt-Emporda, Girona, in large companies but also in small boutiques.

Vinyes Tortuga extends over almost 10 hectares of land in the Albera Nature Reserve, in the Pyrenees Orientales area, the wines are produced with little human intervention in the vineyard and cellar, without fining, filtration or stabilizers.

Jurriaan and Dido produce Garnacha, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Tannat and Barbera, from vines that are between 15 and 20 years old, the approach is biodynamic. The bottles produced are approximately 13,000.

The name of all the wines recalls particularly loved albums or songs.