Organic. 100% Cartoixà de Marina (pink Cartoixà). Single vineyard of 1.5 ha, located immediately next to the Gaia river. Soils are majority limestone, with some river sediments. Hand-harvested; grapes are selected in the vineyard. Skin maceration for six days in stainless steel. Pressed off, then aged on the lees for four months in steel. Bottled unfined/unfiltered with small dose of SO2 added at bottling. The cuvée name is the name of the last horse with whom his grandfather worked the vineyards, La Lleona (“lion”). Notes of dried flowers, buttery olives, melon and coastal minerality.

Winemaker Francesc Boronat works out of the tiny village of Nulles, southwest of Barcelona, organically farming land that his been in his family for a century. Living chalky soils, gently rolling slopes, plenty of native flora, and fresh sea breeze from Tarragona’s visibly close “golden” coast provide an ideal climate for Francesc’s old vines to produce distinctly mediterranean, luminous fruit.