{"title":"Alvaro Gonzalez Marcos","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo hectares of vines and roughly 8,000 bottles a year is not a business plan so much as a vocation. Alvaro Gonzalez Marcos left another life behind to farm a tiny corner of the high Penedes by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGonzalez founded his project, Somiavins, meaning \"dreamwine,\" in 2013, after studying oenology and working as a sommelier, a period he describes as life-changing. He set up in a masia, a traditional Catalan country house where wine has been made for more than four centuries, and committed from the start to working by hand in the vineyard and intervening as little as possible in the cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/alvaro-gonzalez-marcos-low-intervention-wine-from-the-penedes\"\u003eAlvaro Gonzalez Marcos producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-temps-alvaro-gonzalez-marco-natural-wine","title":"Alvaro Gonzalez Marcos A Temps 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Temps is a still white wine from Alvaro Gonzalez Marcos, produced in the Penedes DO of Catalonia, Spain. It is a blend of Xarel·lo and Parellada, two of the three native white grapes historically used in Cava production. The wine is bone dry with less than 1 gram per liter of residual sugar, and is fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in stainless steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGonzalez Marcos farms organically and biodynamically without formal certification, working vine by vine and harvesting by hand into small boxes. The vineyards sit on loam soils in Penedes, a Mediterranean region southwest of Barcelona that benefits from sea breezes and a wide diurnal temperature range at higher elevations. His cellar is housed in a Catalan Masia with over 400 years of winemaking history on the property.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine is unfined, unfiltered, and bottled with low sulfites at 23 mg\/L total. Xarel·lo provides the structural backbone and acidity in the blend, while Parellada contributes lighter aromatic character and freshness. The result is a medium-bodied, dry white with a round texture and lively finish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alvaro Gonzalez Marcos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36280248860824,"sku":"GONZTEMP17C","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/gonzalo-a-temps-spain-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186904"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/alvaro-gonzalez-marcos.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}