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 Simeta is a single-vineyard planting of varietal arcos from a plot on the south side of a hill of the Penya Foradà mountain planted in 1970 on a beautiful crumbly limestone and iron parcel. This is Javi’s single wine from red soils. He ferments the arcos whole cluster with indigenous yeasts in concrete vats, then maturing the wine in 1,500 liter oak foudre, finishing with 500 liter French oak barrels for one year of maturation. The wine has a fine-boned structure of ripe tannin with iron flecks fleshed in red cherry and mountain berries.
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“It has some tannins in a somewhat Italian style and is a little earthy with some hints of iron. It's a classical Mediterranean year in the style of 2020, but it's the first year that the wine aged in foudre; this shows in the precision and the lifted character that makes it finer-boned. The red soils give it a different texture from the white soils. This is austere and for the long term. But there's never a sensation of heat or weight. 3,200 bottles were filled in March 2024.” - Luis Gutiérrez
