Macabeo
Filthy/Gorgeous 2022
Chateau Baby Girl

Grape Variety: Macabeo

Producer: Chateau Baby Girl (Fernando Berry)

Region: Penedès, Catalunya, Spain

Vegan friendly wine

Wild Scale: 4/5

Winemaking: Organic Macabeo grapes grown by Nuria Renom were hand harvested crushed before spending 48 hours on the skins. Fermentation with indigenous yeast in stainless steel. Aged in tank and amphora vessels for 1 year before bottling with no fining, filtration or added sulphur. 

This Wine: The mysterious Chateau Baby Girl has harnessed the power of Nuria Renom's Macabeo grapes to produce and orange, skin contact wine . This is fresh and tart with flavours bitter grapefruit, green apple and gooseberry. This very small production took place at the winery of Vinyes Tortuga in northern Catalonia. 

Notes on the Winemaker: Chateau Baby Girl is an esteemed 300 hectare estate on the left bank in Bordeaux. Not really. It's actually the winemaking project of Fernando Berry, well known for his import company Otros Vinos that has been championing the pioneers of Spanish natural wine for years now. Fernando has built such a close relationship with so many of his winemakers that it has helped realise his dream to make his own wine. 2021 was his first vintage and we look forward to more in the future.