Winery / Producer: Clos Pons (An avant-garde winery focused on enhancing the high-altitude terroir of Les Garrigues, producing internationally respected labels of great concentration and elegance).

Specific Origin: Finca Clos Pons, Albagés, Lleida, D.O. Costers del Segre, Catalonia, Spain.

Vintage: 2018 (A mature harvest of great balance and prolonged continental freshness, ideal for the development of complex textures).

Varietal Composition: A unique blend of Garnacha Blanca and Albariño perfectly acclimatized to the inland climate.

Viticulture and Soils: Vineyards located at an altitude of over 500 meters on loam-clay soils with an abundant presence of limestone, under a rigorous continental climate with low rainfall.

Vinification and Aging: Rigorous selection of bunches. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks and partly in wood. Fine aging for approximately 4 months in French oak barrels on its own lees, providing volume and roundness before final stabilization.

Style: Oaked white wine for cellaring, complex, sumptuous, glyceric, mature, and floral-spicy.

Alcohol Content: 13.5% Vol. (Structured body with great integration).

Capacity: 750 ml bottle.

SKU: ESP-CLOSPONS-SISQUELLA-2018-750

Sight: Boasts a beautiful and elegant straw yellow color with vivid, intense golden reflections and clean greenish flashes. It exhibits a slow, dense, and markedly glyceric flow on the sides of the glass.

Nose: A bouquet of great complexity, mature and seductive. It unfolds clear notes of fleshy white fruit (ripe pear, baked apple) and stone fruit, followed by refreshing hints of citrus and wild white flowers. In the background, elegant echoes of toasted almond, subtle creamy notes of vanilla, and a fine mineral chalky nuance are revealed.

Palate: The entry is ample, majestic, and full of volume. It completely envelopes the palate thanks to its fatty and unctuous character. It is surprising how the flavors of candied fruit and fine pastry integrate with a very lively, vertical citrus acidity contributed by the Albariño, culminating in a long, dry, highly aristocratic finish with subtle spicy touches.

High-End Gastronomic Pairing: Possessing remarkable structure, unctuousness, and a glyceric profile refined by oak, Sisquella 2018 is a white wine of great gastronomic weight. It harmonizes celestially with oily fish, baked or grilled (turbot, wild sea bass, salmon loin with an aromatic crust), and traditional seafood stews like 'zarzuela de pescado' or cod al pil-pil. It is a sublime companion for creamy rice dishes, seafood paellas, and intense fideuás. It elegantly accompanies white farm poultry (roast chicken with herbs, poulard with dried fruits) and wild mushroom risottos. In Mexican gastronomy, it pairs masterfully with complex dishes like chiles en nogada (where it balances the creaminess of the walnut), 'pescado zarandeado' with fine dried chili adobos, garlic shrimp, and chicken breasts with white mole.

Suggested Moments:

• Corporate Business Lunches: Presenting an oaked white wine as exclusive and ingenious as this one from Clos Pons demonstrates advanced and refined oenological knowledge, ideal for impressing business partners at a gourmet table.
• Select Weekend Family Meal: Ideal for presiding over Sunday lunches alongside a great Mediterranean paella, a premium seafood platter, or baked white meats, pleasing both classical and modern palates.
• Oenological Couture Gift: An extremely well-chosen gift for oenophiles, sommeliers, or collectors of exclusive labels from Catalonia who appreciate structured whites with aging potential.
• Sophisticated Summer Sunset: An absolute luxury delight to enjoy at the ideal temperature on a terrace or elegant garden, accompanied by semi-cured cheese boards (such as Manchego or Comté) as the sun goes down.

At what exact temperature is it recommended to serve Sisquella White Wine?

Given its great structure, fatty body, and the subtle contribution of the 2018 vintage's barrel aging, this white wine should not be served excessively chilled. The ideal temperature is between 9°C and 11°C. If it is chilled too much in an ice bucket, its fine notes of bakery, almonds, and baked white fruit will be aromatically blocked.

What does the use of Albariño contribute in an inland terroir like Clos Pons?

Albariño grown at over 500 meters in Albagés develops a unique profile. Being exposed to very cool nights, it maintains a splendid natural acidity. In the Sisquella blend, it acts as a perfect counterbalance to the warm, structured, and dense character of the Garnacha Blanca, injecting freshness and floral intensity.

Does this 2018 vintage white wine have the potential to continue evolving?

Yes, it has excellent aging potential. The splendid fruit concentration, the altitude of the vineyard, and the great protective work on lees allow it to be at an extraordinary moment for consumption, maintaining tremendous finesse in the bottle thanks to the nobility of its tertiary evolution.

Does the time in French oak dominate the fruity flavor of Sisquella?

No, not at all. The Clos Pons winemaking team carries out a very respectful short aging of approximately 4 months. The fine-grained French oak acts only to provide volume, silkiness on the palate, and subtle hints of sweet vanilla and toast that complement and enhance the native fruit instead of hiding it.