Are you having a dinner party and want a white Xarel·lo wine with high complexity and elegance? El Fanio is your wine!
El Fanio is a 100% Xarel·lo wine made using different aging techniques. Fermented for 25 days with native yeasts from the vineyard, the wine is divided into three tanks and aged for 9 months in:
- Cement eggs: They provide great volume and unctuousness.
- Acacia wood barrels: Adding a delicate floral touch.
- Stainless steel tanks: They preserve maximum freshness.
This meticulous production process results in an elegant wine with marked aromas of fresh fruit, orange blossom and fennel. On the palate, it is unctuous with a fresh acidity, hints of quince and a distinctive bitter finish of Xarel·lo. Perfect for pairing with creamy cheeses, rice, pasta, fish dishes or white meats.
Don’t wait any longer to enjoy this wine jewel of the Penedès. Buy it now and discover the true potential of xarel·lo.
El Fanio, the most special vineyard of Albet i Noya
El Fanio is 8 terraces of Xarel·lo planted in the 1940s by Epifanio Sardà located at the top of the Can Milà de la Roca estate, at 330 meters above sea level. It is a very special vineyard, with an extremely calcareous soil, which gives us the maximum expression of Xarel·lo in our country.
The Fanio vineyard receives a strictly organic treatment and has also witnessed some biodynamic experiments. Regarding the soil, the vineyard lives up to the name of the estate (Can Milà de la Roca) since the stone emerges in several places leaving a very shallow soil and limiting the vigor of the plant that gives us very concentrated grapes with an optimal health condition.
A valuable intangible heritage of humanity
One of the most important features of this vineyard are its dry stone walls which constitute a great example of traditional agriculture and are also an emblem of the vineyard in the Muntanyes d’Ordal.
In recent years, Albet i Noya has carried out an important recovery action not only of the Fanio terraces but also in the training of professionals in this almost disappeared trade.
Pep Sastre Sardà and Jaume Ferrer Payeres, master builders of the Mallorcan school, have come to the Penedès on several occasions to restore the Fanio terraces and train new specialists in this art.
In November 2018, UNESCO declared the art of Dry Stone as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
