Daniel Ramos, El Berrakin Blanco, Sierra de Gredos, Spain South Downs It’s fair to say Montsant

It’s fair to say Montsant is giving its more famous neighbour Priorat a run for its money and the wine of Cellar de Capçanes is most certainly in that race

mediterranean herbs and chalky tannins

The grapes were handpicked and whole bunch fermented with the natural yeasts in concrete tanks

The unfined and unfiltered wine is then given a long second fermentation in the bottle using organic and neutral yeasts

Daniel Ramos, El Berrakin Blanco, Sierra de Gredos, Spain South Downs It’s fair to say MontsantRaised in Australia, Daniel Ramos or Kapi to his friends returned to his Spanish motherland and has found a home making wines high in the Gredos mountains just outside Madrid. He works mostly with old bush vines of Albillo Real and Garnacha, making wines with minimal intervention despite hating the term yet and achieving great expressions of the Gredos. His blanco is made with an ancient variety called Jaen blanco from high altitude vines, fermented