Vins Raventos Malvasia de Sitges Vinya la Plana 2023 CS20230828 the palate unfolds with blood

the palate unfolds with blood orange

with more than twenty years of quiet aging already behind it

A 1990 vintage Armagnac from Vincent Laterrade

using artisan procedures and techniques that go back to the centuries-old recipes of the mountain tradition

you pay good money for it

Vins Raventos Malvasia de Sitges Vinya la Plana 2023 CS20230828 the palate unfolds with bloodVins Ravents is the still wine project of the Ravents family, the Peneds dynasty better known for sparkling. Here they turn their attention to indigenous Catalan grapes farmed on the family estate, and Malvasia de Sitges is one of the rarest of them a near vanished local white that has been quietly nurtured back from the brink. Vinya la Plana is a single parcel, and the resulting wine is a snapshot of a grape and a place that almost disappeared.