Description

Cami dels Xops is a cuvée of Macabeu and Xarel-lo from two adjacent vineyards.

The grapes are fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks and old 225L French oak barrels, bottled before primary fermentation is fully finished (with approximately 20g/L of residual sugar) in the ancestral métode style.

No herbicides or pesticides are used in the vineyard.

There is something unique about the Penedès terroir and Agustí Torello Roca is trying to show it to the world.

Through individual parcels and the most rigorous respect for agriculture and winemaking, Agustí is here to reveal the soul of Alt Penedès.

Agustí founded Anima Mundi in 2015 with this guiding principle: through careful observation of the land, one is able to show the true expression of the grape and the place.

In addition to Anima Mundi, Agustí is the head winemaker at his family's AT Roca winery, which focuses on terroir-driven champagne-method sparkling wines within the newly formed DO Classic Penedès, and at their new project, Sileo, which focuses on expression of the Cornudella terroir in Montsant with wines from Garnacha and Cariñena.

Anima Mundi, however, is a dream realized by Agustí outside of Spanish appellations, and is the sole driver of this project in a small corner of the family winery and vineyards, planted near the 11th century Benedictine monastery of Sant Sebastià dels Gorgs.

The vineyards are located in the Costers d'Ordal and have extremely calcareous soils due to the influence of the nearby Garraf Massif. The area is located between Sant Sadurni d'Anoia (where their winery is currently located) and Vilafranca del Penedès.

Above the ancient monastery, the landscape is a tapestry of mixed and varied soils and different microclimates along eroded valleys created by the many streams and rivers that flow west from the Garraf limestone massif and the Mediterranean Sea.