This wine is a pre arrival, with estimated arrival of mid spring. 

Javi Revert grew up near La Font de la Figuera in western Valencia. His grandfathers were winemakers before him and his fathers. While studying viticulture in Valencia, Javi began working with Pablo Calatayud at Celler del Roure. During his studies he began to champion the indigenous grape varieties that had been left by the wayside in Spain’s scrabble towards wine industrialization in the 1980’s. Javi went about reviving the grape mandó and then with Pablo, they began experimenting with recovering other heirloom varieties. Today Javi is respected around Spain for his work with arcos, bonicaire, monastrell, and garnacha. The cellar of his vineyard is the original 17th-century cellar with over forty intact amphora that the winery uses today. Javi’s vineyards are cared for with a great tenderness going towards the health of the vineyards and the surrounding ecosystems and he makes his wine with a touch that grows defter and defter.

The Foradà is a blend of arcos and garnacha planted in 2018 on old terraces at 800 meters. The wine ferments whole cluster with indigenous yeasts before maturing in 500-liter barrel and demijohns for a year and a half. The wine is always a very pale red with a nose of wild strawberries with light green herbal aromatics ringing the center of the wine. The wine has a bright, delicate Mediterranean air breezing through it. 

The Wine Advocate 96

“...very attractive, showing the effect of the very warm and dry year in the aromatics, where there's more ripeness ….also more evolution here, a little à la Rayas, hinting on notes of brick dust and forest floor, a little decadent and baroque, with fragility. Only 750 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2024.” -Luis Gutiérrez