Enric Soler, Penedes Xarel-lo/Malvasia 'Istiu', 2024 SO092325 Eudes Château Beychevelle remains one of

Château Beychevelle remains one of Saint-Julien’s most beloved estates—and in the warm

and pushed by long lees aging into territory that recalls top white Burgundy as much as anything from Styria

named for his grandparents

resulting in a medium-bodied red with bright fruit

decant it for three hours and clear the evening

Enric Soler, Penedes Xarel-lo/Malvasia 'Istiu', 2024 SO092325 Eudes Château Beychevelle remains one ofEnric Soler is one of Spain's most quietly important winemakers a former Spanish Sommelier Champion (1997) who walked away from a Barcelona tasting room career in 2004 to take over his grandfather's tiny inheritance of old Xarel lo vines in Penedes. He farms biodynamically, ferments with wild yeasts and works with the kind of intervention you can count on one hand. "Istiu" Catalan for "summer" is the cuvee he made for the season: a co fermentation of