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Joan Rubió – Cal Tiques
My name is Joan Rubió and I am a winemaker,
born in El Penedès, at the Masia* Cal Tiques
I tend our family-owned estate located in Cal Rubio in Santa Margarida i els Monjos.
In our family we have always grown the Xarel·lo and Macabeu varieties and I’ve heard my grandparents talk about their Sumoll vineyards.
We grow vines, cereals and olive trees, according to organic and biodynamic principles. In 2015 I decided to create a cellar with the intention of making the wines that I always dreamt of.
* Catalan name for a farmhouse
“When you’re in the vineyard and
you see the vine surrounded by
the spontaneous vegetation cover,
you become aware of how absurd it is
to try to put parameters to life. “
Al of our wineyards are registered at the CCPAE (the catalan governing body of organic farming) since 2009. We strictly apply the principles of organic and biodynamic agriculture. We minimize intervention of the soil and leave a spontaneous vegetable cover.
Tiques
This Xarel·lo is named after the farmhouse. We created a flavour that represents the maximum expression of the connection between the soil and the grapes. This wine undergoes a long maceration with a static cap.
It has structure and depth. No additional sulphur has been added and no filtering agents have been used to clarify the wine.
Essencial
Essence:
“The origin of everything, the strict sense of nature itself.”
This Xarel·lo undergoes skin-contact maceration for 10 days with cap management. It brings intense floral aromas with a vibrant silky mouth feel and a long finish.
The grapes of this wine comes from a variety of small fields with a limestone soil.
Obstinat
“Obstinate …A delicate treatment of the skin of the grape in order to obtaining the soul”
Obtained from the vineyard of Guasch, in the area of Castellvi de la Marca. The grape skins are exposed for 18 days, partly in open oak barrels. Less than 2.000 bottles are extracted by gravity, without pressing.
Joanots
Joanots is the first wine of the bodega. Two friends named Joan brought this dream to life, Aart Jan Hemmink and Joan Rubió
The wine is a ‘Macabeu’ variety and has an intense floral nose, a soft mouth feel and a long persistent finish.
Ancestral Monastrell
Sparkling rosé made with grapes from the 100% Monastrell variety of young vines.
VINIFICATION
Destemming, maceration for one hour, start of alcoholic fermentation with autochthonous yeasts in a stainless steel tank, final fermentation in the bottle.
Nituix
Nituix wine is a 100% Xarel·lo of a handmade harvest in boxes of 20 kgr on August 26, 2017 in Vilafranca del Penedès, land where Joan Rubió has worked the vine since always. The crop system has been ecological and biodynamic. The 2017 vintage produced 1500 bottles.
“We see wines as melodies created by the grapes, where each part contributes a different and specific sound: the skin, the pulp, the stem, the seeds, the lees; all of them are necessary to obtain the final melody.”
Our wines are obtained from free-run juice, without pressing, slowly vinified, and macerated with their skins.
The picking and the selecting of the grapes is done manually.
Contact
Masia Cal Tiques
Barri Cal Rubió
08730 Santa Margarida i els Monjos
Barcelona
+34 938 980 554
joanrubio@tiques.cat
