At a Glance
- Name: Llum means 'the light' in Catalan
- Varieties: 45% Grenache Gris, 45% Macabeu, 10% Grenache Blanc
- Vine Age: Planted from 1919 to 2008
- Terroir: Schist
- Viticulture: Organic (certified, practicing since 2008) and biodynamic (certified, practicing since 2011)
- Winemaking: Whole-cluster pressing. Settling without cooling. Ambient yeast fermentation with no sulfur additions in 500L barrels, mostly used. No fining. Light filtration. Total sulfur at bottling 40 to 60 ppm, though it is not all added because the yeasts in the terroir produce a substantial amount on their own during fermentation.
Additional Info
Marjorie: “Llum means 'the light' in Catalan. It is pronounced Li-oom. We are on terroirs that are hot but also full of light. What we want to translate in our wines is the light. We made solar wines in the past. We started farming conventionally. But as we converted to biodynamic farming, we began to access something else. Then we didn’t want to make solar wines anymore, we wanted to make luminous wines.’
“It’s an old field blend, or complantation. We don’t go several times to harvest each variety at perfect ripeness. We aim for consensus. We’re not in the realm of perfection. We are in the realm of imperfection, and with that, there is magic. Fields blends are imperfection.”