Peres Balta Calcari 2023

Grape: Xarel-lo

Region: Penedes, Spain 

Farming: Organic

The history of Peres Balta begins in the eighteenth century, when in 1790, the first vineyards were planted on the Parés Balta estate, vineyards that still surround the manor house where our winery is located. The old cava cellar was constructed in the beginning of the twentieth century, stone by stone. Joan Cusiné Hill was born in 1917 in a small village in Penedès. The son of a family of winegrowers, he dedicated all his life to the cultivation of the vines. He began working at the age of 7 and could never be said to have retired, at the age of 80 he still helped supervising the agriculture work carried out on his farms. Currently it is the third generation of the Cusiné family, Joan and Josep, who are at the head of the winery, with the unconditional help of their parents and their wives, María Elena and Marta, two women that fell in love with the brothers while learning about the world of wine and becoming the winemakers of the winery for more than 20 years. From the flagship variety of the Penedès, the xarel-lo, comes this organic single-varietal wine. Calcari brings together the purest and most sincere expression of this ancestral variety, native to our territory and strongly rooted in our winemaking tradition.