Country: Spain > Montsant

Sindicat La Figuera

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Sindicat La Figuera is a small co-operative in the Montsant Mountains founded in 1932, producing wines of brightness and integrity. One must navigate very narrow, winding roads up the mountainside to reach the town of La Figuera, which sits at 6oom elevation and has a mere 80 residents. The town appears to rise up out of the peak of the mountain, with the surrounding mountains and the Priorat region in view in all directions.

In the early 1930s when the co-op was founded, La Figuera was a bustling town; there were 25 residents involved in the creation of the winemaking facility and who contributed grapes to the first vintage. Garnatxa, as the Catalans call it, has always been planted around La Figuera and has always been the primary grape used for Sindicat’s flagship wine. While Cariñena is typically blended with Garnatxa in Montsant, La Figuera is known for the beauty and elegance of their pure Garnatxa wines and is one of the few places where it is bottled on its own. The town prospered until mid 50s, when a great storm devastated the area and the year after a strong frost occurred. Residents fled, and much of the vineyards were destroyed and abandoned.

Sindicat La Figuera works with 25 hectares of Garnatxa Fina and vines range in age from 2o-7o years. Wines are fermented with wild yeasts in underground concrete tanks with minimum temperature control, where they spend around 9 months aging on fine lees before being bottled with light fining and filtration.

  • Appellation: Montsant
  • Owner: N/A
  • Winemaker: N/A
  • Varieties Grown: Grenache Red
  • Hectares/Age of Vines: 25 ha / 20-70 years
  • Altitude/Soil: N/A
  • Farming Methods: Conventional

Wines

Red Rose White Sparkling Sweet Fortified Spirits Cider