Anna Serra

Catalonia
Spain
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Anna Serra

Catalonia
Spain
Spain
PRODUCER
Anna Serra, Toni Carbó
ESTABLISHED
FARMING PRACTICE
Biodynamic, Organic
REGION
Catalonia
Spain
CITY / VILLAGE
CLIMATE
Mediterranean
ELEVATION
SIZE

About

Anna Serra is a new producer working in the Plà del Penedès, one of the more historical pockets of the overall Penedès region in Catalunya. Anna is the working partner with Toni Carbò at Celler La Salada, and Toni is her mentor—he is the one who taught Anna to farm and how to make wine, and after many years of them working side-by-side, Anna has struck out on her own to create an independent line of wines. She focuses on crafting single-vineyard wines from high quality sites with lots of personality, Anna eschews secondary fermentation, and instead is attempting to make pét-nats of very high quality. The Anna Serra wines are refreshing and clearly fruited, but we also note their precision (and dryness); they reference the precision of Cava, without losing the spirited and energetic touch that she’s learned working at La Salada these many years.

Products

Methode Ancestral Macabeo 'Euga'

TYPE
Sparkling / White
VARIETAL
Macabeo
FARMING PRACTICE
Biodynamic, Organic
DETAILS

Biodynamic. 100% Macabeu. Fruit drawn from an old-vines, bush-trained vineyard of Macabeu called ‘Coscona,’ planted in 1973. Calcareous clay soils lend themselves to a driven, seriously chalky quality on the palate. 24 hours of skin contact, then the wine is put in bottle to ferment entirely there. It spend seven months on full lees before disgorgement and release. This isn’t a pét-nat that’s flabby with a bunch of RS: it’s lean, intense, with pretty structured bubble. Clearly the vineyard site, as well as having guidance from Toni Carbó directly on the winemaking, are contributing to the amazing quality of Anna Serra's very first solo cuvée.

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Methode Ancestral Rose 'Borrasca'

TYPE
Sparkling / Rosé
VARIETAL
Monastrell,Bastardo, Mando, Moica, Malvasia de Sitges
FARMING PRACTICE
Biodynamic, Organic
DETAILS

Biodynamic. A dark rosato blended from one single field-blend plot of mixed old vines, containing the varieties Monastrell, Bastard Negre, Mandó, Monica, and Malvasia de Sitges. 100% direct-pressed, with roughly twelve months on the full lees in bottle before disgorgement and release. Notes of warm soil, dark strawberry and cranberry, and notable Mediterranean garrigue, with a clear shape and nice bubbles: not an imprecise, off-dry version of pét-nat, but rather something quite serious that reflects the traditions of Cava country while still giving heartiness and a deeply refreshing quality. Both the quality of the vineyard site, as well as guidance from well-known La Salada winemaker Toni Carbó on the winemaking, are contributing to the amazing depth in these sparkling wines.

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Methode Ancestral Xarello 'La Noia del Bosc'

TYPE
Sparkling / White
VARIETAL
Xarello
FARMING PRACTICE
Biodynamic, Organic
DETAILS

Biodynamic. 100% Xarel.lo. Fruit drawn from a single parcel called ‘Vicenta,’ planted in 2002 to Xarel.lo on very sandy, clay-calcareous soils. Cold crushed, 75% of the juice is direct-pressed, and 25% of the juice sees two weeks of skin contact, then the wine is put in bottle to ferment entirely there. It spent an impressive 20 months on full lees before disgorgement and release. Warm, bright, with refined minerality and soft bubble. Both the quality of the vineyard site, as well as guidance from well-known La Salada winemaker Toni Carbó on the winemaking, are contributing to the amazing depth in these sparkling wines.

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