Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Improvisacio 2024 26REASONABLE Napa's first woman winemaker-proprietor

Napa's first woman winemaker-proprietor

baking spice and toasted hazelnut

Fresh herbs explode from the glass—oregano and thyme greeting grapefruit and fig on the nose

on parcels Stanko's grandfather planted and which have been farmed without synthetics since 1995

The enduring symbol of class and quality

Enric Soler Penedes Xarel·lo Improvisacio 2024 26REASONABLE Napa's first woman winemaker-proprietorXarel lo built Cava's reputation and then got treated like a workhorse. Enric Soler treats it like a great grape instead, and he's spent two decades proving he's right. Improvisacio pulls from three biodynamically farmed parcels, direct pressed and fermented spontaneously in Austrian Stockinger barrels and concrete eggs, then aged nine months. This is a still white wine, not a sparkler, and it's the most persuasive argument anyone makes for Xarel lo