Can Sumoi La Rosa | 2022

With less than 12% alcohol, it's hard to imagine a wine can be bone dry and overwhelmingly delicious. Made by Pepe Raventós, legendary for his sparkling wines, Can Sumoi is his still wine project. It's a humble 17th century farmhouse, high-up in the Serra de l’Home mountains in the Penedès region of Catalonia. Here, native grapes are farmed biodynamically and produced without additives, yielding wines with pretty transparency and French-like acidity. With its eye-catching bottle (which also makes a great vase), this rosé is a blend of Sumoll, Parellada, and Xarel-lo, briefly macerated with its skins for 4 hours. On the palate, it's like drinking a puffy cloud, robust with Mediterranean colors while finishing so airy and light, ~Allegra A