Capçanes is, and isn't, a co-op wine. Capçanes is the name of a small village, south-east of the region's main town, Falset. The winery is the co-op of Capçanes the village. But this is no co-op winery! Run by a visionary German, Jurgen Wagner, Capçanes makes estate-style wine from within a co-op system. Extraordinarily strict selection criteria for fruit sees the co-op's yield classified into six distinct tiers, with reward per kg increasing significantly at each step up the pyramid.
‘La Sendal’ = ‘the path’, indicating the site halfway up the mountain to the towering Cabrida. Rather than the raspberry of French Grenache, this is in a darker beefstock and briary blackberry register, with typical mineralfloral complexity. Savoury Garnacha of great elegance after 10 months in used 500 litre French.