Can Sumoi Muntanya 2024
£17.45
The wine
Muntanya, meaning mountain, is Can Sumoi's traditional-method sparkling, a blend of Macabeo and Xarel·lo grown organically in the high Penedès.
Fine, lively bubbles carry green apple, citrus and a subtle bready note, finishing dry, fresh and clean. A sparkling wine with the energy and honesty of its mountain home.
A characterful aperitif, and lovely with shellfish, fried nibbles and delicate seafood. Serve well chilled.
The producer
Can Sumoi
View all Can Sumoi winesHigh in the Serra de l'Home, in the wild hills of the Montmell above the Penedès, Can Sumoi farms vines at up to six hundred metres. This is old, remote country, and the wines carry its imprint: fresh, light-footed and vividly alive.
The estate was revived by Pepe Raventós, of the family that first made Cava, as a return to a simpler way of working. Everything here is organic and low-intervention, the fruit fermented with wild yeasts in amphora and old wood, nothing added and little taken away.
The focus is on native Catalan varieties, Xarel·lo, Parellada, Sumoll and Garnatxa, coaxed into wines of real transparency. There are crisp whites, a pale rosé, a gentle red and traditional-method and ancestral sparklers, all made to be drunk with pleasure rather than pondered.
Honest, mountain-fresh and full of character, these are natural wines in the best sense. Pour them well chilled, share them freely, and taste a corner of the Penedès few ever see.






