The result is startling: green plum flesh
and ages in ancient neutral casks with a patience most modern producers have long abandoned
but it’s whisper-soft—used to shape
one of grower Champagne's most revered houses
much like the valley itself
Can Sumoi, Xarel-lo, 2024 msk_archive The result is startling: greenPepe Ravents i Blanc launched Can Sumoi as a project dedicated to Peneds's indigenous grape varieties Xarello, Sumoll, Garnatxa Blanca farmed naturally and vinified with minimal intervention. Xarello is Peneds's most interesting white grape: aromatic, textured, and capable of real complexity when farmed seriously and not over cropped. The 2024 is immediate and honest bright, herb driven, mineral, and very much its own thing. Natural Peneds from one of