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Celler Frisach

Celler Frisach Terra Alta Abrunet Negre 2024

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Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied red; juicy and fluid with lively acidity, soft tannins, and a clean spiced finish
Grapes & Terroir: 60% Garnacha Fina, 40% Cariñena; clay-limestone soils with calcium-rich quartz veins; Finca Creveta and Vall de Canelles, Corbera d'Ebre; organically certified; Terra Alta DO, Catalonia
Winemaking: Hand-harvested together; whole-grape foot-trodden; co-fermented with native yeasts in traditional underground cement trulls; one week skin maceration; winter cold stabilization; unfined, unfiltered, zero added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 57-61°F; no decanting needed; enjoyable lightly chilled at 54°F
Pairing: Botifarra amb mongetes
Similar to: Lighter Priorat, young Corbières rouge, everyday Carignan from Roussillon

Celler Frisach Terra Alta Abrunet Negre 2024 is a dry red wine produced by brothers Francesc and Joan Ferré at their organically certified estate in Corbera d'Ebre, within the Terra Alta DO in southern Catalonia, Spain. The blend combines 60% Garnacha Fina and 40% Cariñena from two named estate parcels, Finca Creveta and Vall de Canelles, grown on clay-limestone soils with calcium-rich veins of quartz. Both varieties are hand-harvested together, foot-trodden whole, and co-fermented with native yeasts in traditional underground cement tanks known as trulls. Celler Frisach Terra Alta Abrunet Negre 2024 rests on skins for one week, then is stabilized by winter cold before bottling unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfites at 12.5% ABV.

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Producer profile

Celler Frisach

Celler Frisach is run by Francesc and Joan Ferré, two brothers from Corbera d'Ebre, a small town in the Terra Alta DO perched above the Ebro River. Their family has farmed land in this area organically for more than two centuries. The surname Frisach belonged to their great-grandfather, and still marks the family house on the main street of the village. For most of the family's winemaking history, the harvest went to the local cooperative, as was true for the majority of Terra Alta's growers through the second half of the 20th century.

The break came in 2009, when Francesc completed his oenology studies and he and Joan decided to bottle under their own name. Independent family wineries were uncommon in the appellation at that point, and the region's international profile was still limited. What the brothers had going for them was the vineyard: 40 hectares of certified organic estate vines planted at elevation around Corbera d'Ebre, with old head-trained vines of Garnacha Blanca, Garnacha Fina, Garnacha Peluda, Garnacha Gris, Cariñena, and the rare indigenous variety Morenillo. Many of these vines predate the brothers' own careers in wine.

In the cellar, Francesc works with the trulls, traditional underground cement fermentation tanks built by earlier generations of the family, which maintain naturally cool and stable temperatures without mechanical control. This, combined with foot-treading whole grapes, native yeast co-fermentation, and a philosophy of adding nothing to the wine at any point, produces wines that are genuinely site-specific and transparent.

Celler Frisach has built a following across Barcelona's natural wine bar circuit and in export markets including the United States and the United Kingdom. Several of their cuvées reference the Spanish Civil War history of the surrounding landscape, including the name Abrunet, which comes from a local Catalan word referring to the scrubland typical of the Terra Alta hills.

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Wine region

Catalonia, Spain

Terra Alta, Catalan for "high land," is the most southerly and most inland of Catalonia's wine appellations, covering around 11,000 acres across 12 municipalities in the southern Tarragona province. The zone sits between two spurs of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range, along the Ebro River basin where it bends south toward the Valencian Community. The landscape is wild and austere: scrubby hillsides, limestone outcrops, and terraced vineyards laid out by generations of small family farmers who had few other viable crops in this dry, stony terrain. Most vineyards sit at between 985 and 1,150 ft above sea level, with peaks in the surrounding ranges reaching over 3,100 ft.

The climate combines Mediterranean and continental influences. Summer days are long, hot, and dry, but the altitude tempers the heat compared to the lowland plains. The Cierzo, a dry northwesterly wind from the Ebro Valley, and the Garbinada, a southwesterly from the Mediterranean, sweep through the vineyards regularly, keeping humidity low and reducing disease pressure across growing seasons. This makes organic viticulture both practical and historically common in Terra Alta, where small estates have long farmed without intensive chemical programs simply because conditions allowed it.

Soils are predominantly clay-limestone, with high calcium content and in many cases a subsoil layer of panal, a porous material derived from fossilized marine sand dunes. Around Corbera d'Ebre, where Celler Frisach is based, calcium-rich clay-limestone soils are interspersed with quartz veins that give wines an additional mineral edge. The area carries heavy historical weight: the Battle of the Ebro, the longest campaign of the Spanish Civil War, was fought across these hills in 1938. Walking these vineyards, you are never far from that history.

Terra Alta is internationally best known for Garnacha Blanca, which covers roughly a third of all global plantings of that variety. Its reds, built on Garnacha Fina and Cariñena, are gaining a new audience through producers like Celler Frisach who choose traditional fermentation methods and zero-intervention cellaring over modern extraction.

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

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Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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