Bufadors Vinya del Rascarà Brut Nature 2018

Bufadors is the most intimate, family project of Ton Mata (the third generation of the Recaredo family) and his wife Encarna Castillo. For them, it is about much more than wine, it is also a project for the future, which they are consolidating with the building of a micro-winery, which is also their house.  

Both are passionate about bringing out terroir expression in sparkling wines and conveying the landscape in which their wines are grown. La Vinya del Rascarà is sourced from a single vineyard dating from 1999 and planted with Xarel·lo on a soil with extremely high limestone content at Can Rossell de la Serra (located between the municipalities of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia and Torrelavit). The vineyard is farmed both organically and bio-dynamically.

The vinification is very precise, and only the native yeasts present in the grapes are used. Everything that goes into the bottle originates from this same vineyard. The sugar used to trigger off the second fermentation is taken from juices obtained from the vineyard’s later-harvested over-ripe grapes. The wine contains no winemaking additives, no sulphites and no type of fining agent, and undergoes no filtering or cold-stabilisation.  

The first fermentation is carried out in large 600-litre casks. The wine’s ageing in bottle, which is done on its lees using a natural cork closure, lasts over 5 years. In this way, the Xarel·lo grape is able to express all its complexity. The disgorgement process is carried out by hand without freezing the neck of the bottle.

Ton Mata and Encarna Castillo describe their La Vinya del Rascarà as “a wine made without concessions, and this is what makes it unique. Displaying a raw kind of power and transparency, it is a wine stripped of all pretence”.