Artesano Vintners Benjamina Blanco Ancestral Sparkling 2021

Benjamina Blanco Ancestral is a sparkling white wine from Conca de Barberà in Catalonia, Spain, produced by Artesano Vintners using the ancestral method. Mike Shepherd and Alex Craighead craft Benjamina Blanco Ancestral 2021 from organically farmed Parellada and Xarel-lo grapes grown on soils of calcified stone, clay, and sand. The grapes undergo five days of skin contact before fermentation in old French oak barrels with indigenous yeasts. The wine ages in stainless steel before undergoing second fermentation in the bottle according to the ancestral method. Production remains small batch at approximately 1,200 bottles, with no added sulfites, no fining, and no filtration.