Celler Castelló Murphy

We work our vineyards with organic and regenerative agriculture. We leave spontaneous cover crops in all our vineyards that give flowers all year round. We cut the cover crop once or twice a year, depending on the rainfall.

We are planting fruit trees in the vineyards to create a 3^rd layer that will increase biodiversity and protect the grapes from overripening in the heatwaves. We plough once a year only below the vines, to clear the space around them from other plants. We don’t fertilize, since the continuous decomposing of organic matter from the cover crops and the branches from pruning already provide sufficient fertility. We only treat our vineyards with copper for mildew and sulfur for powdery mildew.

In the cellar, we work with spontaneous fermentations from indigenous yeasts, we use no additives, we don’t filter and we don’t fine. We do a temperature control during the fermentation ranging from 18 to 25 °C. In most our wines we don’t add any sulphites during bottling. Only a few will have 25 mg/L max.

Information

Domain Name:
Celler Castelló Murphy
Winemaker's Name:
Gabriel Castelló Murphy
Country:
Spain
Region:
Catalonia
Appellations:
Do empordà, Empordà
Farming:
Organic (CONSELL CATALA PRODUCCIO AGRARIA ECOLOGICA)
Grape varieties:
Cabernet sauvignon and garnatxa negra, Cabernet sauvignon, Garnatxa negra, Carinyena, Merlot, Muscat d’alexandria, Garnatxa negra i muscat d'alexandria