LA FURTIVA
Furtifato 2024
Catalonia, Spain
A collaboration between Òscar and his friend Eloi of Sistema Vinari, this is Garnacha from an old vineyard in Vilalba dels Arcs, planted over red, iron-rich soils similar to those found on Mallorca. The grapes were vinified à la Fato, fermenting as whole bunches for a few weeks, before being pressed to old casks for a year. The result is a lighter, brighter expression of the variety than one might expect from these parts, perfumed gently with berries, dust and brine.
Please note there is a limit of one bottle per customer.
Garnacha
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Òscar Navas Capilla is one of the most talented of a new generation of growers changing the face of Spanish wine.
Òscar grew up in Barcelona, but with ancestral ties to the Terra Alta, he developed an interest in agriculture at a young age and began his journey in wine working alongside a young Eloi Cedó Perelló on Mallorca, who would quickly become both a mentor and friend.
Òscar’s first vintage was 2017 and today he farms seven hectares of old vines spread across several villages in the Terra Alta, planted up to six hundred metres above sea level. The soils are deep, silty and of calcareous origin, and though they differ markedly in composition from one site to the next, they are predominantly what the locals call panal. The soils and elevation lend his wines depth, complexity and a luminous character of real intrigue.
In his small bodega in the village of Vilalba dels Arcs, he focusses on the ways of old, harvesting healthy grapes as ripe as possible, working gently, and ageing the wines in old casks for as long as he deems necessary.
Believing that good wine shouldn’t cost the earth, each year Òscar produces a white and red vi de taula – pure, rustic wines made for the table and everyday drinking.
Alongside and perhaps in contrast to these, he releases an occasional series of breathtaking single vineyard wines. Aged in old casks until ready and bottled in tiny quantities, they include Brisat dels Arcs, Comasorts, Vinya d’en Miquel, and the mythical Finca Rosita – a shimmering, layered white that is amongst the greatest we’ve tasted from the Mediterranean.
Òscar is something of an old soul, a laidback guy with a sensibility that belies his youth, who seems just as proud of a simple table wine as he does the greatest white you’ve never tried.