Anima Mundi Gres Xarello 2024 ReasonableCellar2025 and at this old-vine concentration

and at this old-vine concentration the wine punches well above its village address

Campbeltown

and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvées (Bergeron is Savoie's name for Roussanne) trade off as a study in terroir

this is the detour worth taking

The flagship blend—assembled from 20 different parcels across 15–16 named vineyard sites throughout Côte-Rôtie

Anima Mundi Gres Xarello 2024 ReasonableCellar2025 and at this old-vine concentrationXarel lo built its reputation buried in Cava blends, but Agusti Torello Roca thinks it deserves better. His Anima Mundi project, named for Plato's soul of the world, is where this longtime Penedes sparkling maker experiments freely, biodynamically farming native Catalan grapes outside the appellation system. Gres (Catalan for sandstone) comes from old vines planted between 1956 and 1974 on chalky, sandstone laced soils near an 11th century monastery.