ORGANICALLY FARMED
60% Garnatxa, 40% Carinyena
Venus "La Universal" is a small production winery, operated by the wife & husband team Sara Perez and Rene Barbier. They seek to make traditionally-style wines of their place, but empowered by the renowned winemaking talents and experience of the duo. This is the flaghsip red for the winery, and elegant expression of Montsant's rustic wines of local Grenache and Carignan. Forest floor aromas, a tangy red-fruited entry, and a svelte mouthfeel distinguish this from the average of the area. The long, tapered, citrusy finish distinguishes it from the average of the world.
WINE ADVOCATE 94 POINTS - "The Cari¤ena for the 2019 Venus la Universal suffered from a heat wave of extreme temperatures (up to 46 degrees Celsius) and ripening took a long time; the wine has ripeness and a bit of heat, but the wine kept very good acidity. The long ?levage of 30 months has calmed the wine down a bit, but it might require a little more time. It shows in the palate some of the sweetness of Garnacha (which represents some 40% of the blend) and the tension of Cari¤ena. The tannins might need a little more time in bottle. There are 14,500 bottles of this wine. It was bottled in May 2022."
"Venus is the yearly result of our search for beauty. An attempt to understand the femininity, the land, through a bottle of wine...A juicy wine, mostly created to be paired with food, especially the Mediterranean traditional cuisine.
Grapes are processed as whole berries, and some stems from the Garnatxa. Fermentation starts with wild native yeast. We apply gentle pigeage during fermentation and maceration, that takes around 21 and 28 days in wood tanks. Venus is aged in a 4500L wood vat for 6 months and 12 more months in 2500L foudres." - WINERY NOTES
60% Garnatxa, 40% Carinyena
Venus "La Universal" is a small production winery, operated by the wife & husband team Sara Perez and Rene Barbier. They seek to make traditionally-style wines of their place, but empowered by the renowned winemaking talents and experience of the duo. This is the flaghsip red for the winery, and elegant expression of Montsant's rustic wines of local Grenache and Carignan. Forest floor aromas, a tangy red-fruited entry, and a svelte mouthfeel distinguish this from the average of the area. The long, tapered, citrusy finish distinguishes it from the average of the world.
WINE ADVOCATE 94 POINTS - "The Cari¤ena for the 2019 Venus la Universal suffered from a heat wave of extreme temperatures (up to 46 degrees Celsius) and ripening took a long time; the wine has ripeness and a bit of heat, but the wine kept very good acidity. The long ?levage of 30 months has calmed the wine down a bit, but it might require a little more time. It shows in the palate some of the sweetness of Garnacha (which represents some 40% of the blend) and the tension of Cari¤ena. The tannins might need a little more time in bottle. There are 14,500 bottles of this wine. It was bottled in May 2022."
"Venus is the yearly result of our search for beauty. An attempt to understand the femininity, the land, through a bottle of wine...A juicy wine, mostly created to be paired with food, especially the Mediterranean traditional cuisine.
Grapes are processed as whole berries, and some stems from the Garnatxa. Fermentation starts with wild native yeast. We apply gentle pigeage during fermentation and maceration, that takes around 21 and 28 days in wood tanks. Venus is aged in a 4500L wood vat for 6 months and 12 more months in 2500L foudres." - WINERY NOTES
