The Pouya Estate
Founded: 2017 by Fernanda Parra
Winery Location: A creative arrangement of shipping containers turned into a winery in a small village east of Valle de Guadalupe towards Tecate.
Region and grape source: Fernanda sources her grapes from two old vine vineyard sites in Valle de Guadalupe. Both are organically farmed and harvested by hand.
Notes:
- Pouya makes natural wines with no additions or corrections. They do not undergo filtration or stabilization. Only minimum sulfites are added at bottling - 30 ppm.
- Pouya is a woman-owned, woman-operated LGBTQ boutique production founded and run by Fernanda Parra.
- Fernanda is a Baja native who received her M.S. in enology, ampelology and viticulture after attending university in Montpellier, France. She started her wine career working at the lab at Tenuta Rapitala in Sicily and then worked as a cellar intern at Domaine La Criox Montjoie in Burgundy. Eventually she returned to Mexico work with Camillo Magoni as assistant winemaker at the Magoni Estate. Pouya is her personal project, and it reflects the culmination of years of training and hard work combined with the desire to participate in the expression of her heritage and love for Baja's terroir.
- The name Pouya is an homage to her great grandfather, a French scientist that fell in love with Baja.
Total Production: 800 cases, 6 - 8 wines (additional small batch wines made in some vintages)
2024 Remix Pet Nat - Pouya
Tasting Notes and Drinking Window:
The addition of Chardonnay in this vintage is in keeping with the wild against-the-grain style of the radical tour de force known as Fernanda Parra. A “classic MCG blend”, (ha!) one must remember that using the combination of red grapes with chardonnay to make a sparkling wine is not as uncommon as one might think, (the vast majority of Champagne is chardonnay blended with red grapes), and it plays here very well. Though it’s not the largest percentage in the blend, the chardonnay is the dominate player on the nose and palate where notes of ripe green apple take center stage. Another mindbender from the iconoclastic rebel behind Pouya, this is a delight to all who manage to find it.
only 84 cases made!
Drinking Window: upon release - 4 yearsVintage:
2024
Blend:
39% Merlot, 38% Chardonnay, 23% GrenacheProducer:
Pouya
Winemaker:
Fernanda Parra - Mexican, lives in Valle de Guadalupe
Vineyards:
Valle de Guadalupe - (Grenache and Merlot) Olegario Sandoval vineyard planted in 1969. Site is dry farmed organically and composed very sandy soils. Elevation is 1,100 ft, approximately 15 miles from the Pacific.
Valle de Guadalupe - (Chardonnay) Ejido San Antonio de las Minas – non-grafted rootstock planted in 2015 at an elevation of 950 ft in soil of sandy loam.
Winemaking:
All varieties are commingled in the vineyard, harvested by hand, then crushed, destemmed, and direct pressed without any maceration. Fermentation was kept at the lowest possible temperature to slow the process and it was bottled at 1.6 brix. Fermentation completed in the bottle and the wine was aged sur lees for 3 months before disgorging to eliminate the gross lees and filled with the same wine.
Sulfites: no sulfites addedAlcohol:
11.8%
Farming:
Organic, Sustainable
