"It might just be the very best white wine in Catalonia... this is truly a great wine. Endless flavour. I am smitten." - Tim Atkin's 'Catalonia Report', 98 points and 'White Wine of the Year'

We’re extremely proud to represent Enric Soler’s wines in the UK, one of the most revered winemakers in Catalonia. We could list his various achievements (Spain’s champion sommelier, founder of the Barcelona Wine Academy, leading exponent of biodynamic viticulture in Penedes), but the best illustration of the high esteem in which he is held came when we were talking to a young Catalan winemaker and we told him that we were Enric’s importer and he told us that he idolised him so much that he had named his dog after him. No higher praise needed.

This is Enric Soler’s ‘grand cru’, sourced from a tiny 0.7 hectare vineyard composed of Xarello vines planted in 1945. There’s a latent richness, but without any impression of excess fat, showing immaculate clarity of fruit, tantalising acidity, concentration and length. Imagine a flinty Grand Cru Chablis that spends its summer holidays by the Med and that goes some way towards conveying the spirit of this glorious wine with its flavours of wispy minerals, grapefruit, white flowers, pumpkin and a marine salinity that emerges on the finish. 100% organic/biodynamic farming. Only 7 barrels produced (2,545 bottles). 8 months in 300-litre Burgundy barrels (25% new) without batonnage (so as “not to make the wine dizzy", says Enric). 13% alc. Drink now-2032.

If you buy six it comes in a wooden case (NB I’m afraid we can only offer the 6-bottle wooden case for London delivery, as it’s too fragile to survive the rigours of the courier system. For deliveries outside London, we would need to repack it into ‘mailsafe’ cardboard boxes).

Organic/ biodynamic

Press reviews:

Tim Atkin MW: “80 year old Xarel·lo vines produce Enric's flagship wine, Nun Vinya dels Taus, and from 2022 it might just be the very best white wine in Catalonia. Ripe orchard fruits, apricot, flint, sesame toast and hazelnuts, with such persistence and energy. Broad, mouth-coating and in perfect balance, this is truly a great wine. Endless flavour. I am smitten. 2024-2038.” 98 points and 'White Wine of the Year'

The Wine Advocate: “The 2022 Nun Vinya Dels Taus was cropped from a warm and dry year with some heat waves during the summer, and the wine has muscle and a little more power but balanced with great freshness and acidity. It's very expressive, varietal and clean with very good oak that is noticeable but not intrusive. It's a neat and elegant wine, nicely crafted. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in 300-litre French oak barrels, 35% of them new, where the wine matured for eight to 10 months. Drink now-2032.” 95 points

JancisRobinson.com (previous vintage): “Smoky, tense; every aroma, flavour, molecule of texture organised along rigid lines of flint and steel and smoke. It tastes like green peaches fossilised in ancient salt-crusted rock, like fennel seeds and licking flecks of lichen off very old iron guttering. It tastes of chalk boards in an abandoned school, still bearing the smudge of cursive instruction, chairs and desks scratched with ink and no longer in the attentive lines they were made for. It tastes of subversive rebellion served with a side of salt. It’s Felix da Housecat Silver Screen in a glass. A dry, edgy, pithy wine that doesn’t come easy, but if you like fierce, abrasive and searching, this is your wine. (TC). Drink now-2029.” 18.5 points