WINES OF PATIENCE

Don't you think we are drinking our white wines a bit too young? VILADOMAT-ARAGÓ was born in 2019 with this question as the starting point. The idea of the project is to make white wines in a relaxed way, which reach the market when they are very close to their maximum potential.

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XAREL·LO AND MACABEU

We work with two grape varieties that have demonstrated their role in the long aging of sparkling wines. The Xarel·lo, with its load of antioxidants and its structure, is the brute force of the project, and the Macabeu, with a friendly and subtle character, is the essential complement to give elegance to the wines we make.

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HOW WE MAKE THE WINES

All the grapes we work with have been grown organically, always harvested by hand and delicately pressed. Fermentations are spontaneous and interventions are minimal: the wines change with the randomness of the vintage and the intuitions of the moment. These are living wines.

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WINES FROM AGITATED LANDSCAPES

Throughout the last generations of our family, we have seen many of our vineyards disappear with the construction of industrial estates, the AP7 highway, the C-15 highway... it is up to us to defend what is left. For this reason, our wines have names that speak of the clash between the rural and urban worlds. We are children of a landscape that calls for militancy.

 

 

VILADOMAT-ARAGÓ is a family project led by Gerard Maristany, who grew up among vineyards and has trained as a wine merchant both in California (Golden State Wine, Antalva) and in Penedès (Recaredo), in addition to having completed with honors three levels of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) wine studies. Maristany is also co-owner of the Foresta winery in the Massís del Garraf and advises importers of Catalan wines abroad. If it weren't for the AP7 Motorway passing 20 meters from the family farmhouse , Maristany might live in the Penedès. But thanks to the AP-7, Penedès is not too far from Barcelona, where he lives with his family, at the crossroads of Viladomat and Aragó streets...