# InStabile Brisat (2022)

- **Producer:** Vins Nus
- **Colour:** orange
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Garnatxa Blanca, Macabeu, Cartoixà, Muscat
- **Region:** Catalonia, Spain
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 13.5%
- **Average price:** €25
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** Yes
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 10–12 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** grapefruit, orange, peach, quince, blossom, fennel, resinous, smoke, dried apricot, marmalade, almond, cinnamon

## About this wine

Vins Nus, meaning Naked Wines, was founded by Barcelona architect Alfredo Arribas as a project focused on crafting fresh, non-interventionist expressions of Catalonia high-altitude terroirs. Seeking an alternative to historical, highly extracted styles in Priorat, Arribas located cool micro-parcels near Montsant and Priorat. The InStabiles series serves as an experimental range exploring non-interventionist winemaking, alternative aging vessels, and skin-contact techniques.

## Interesting facts

- Created by architect Alfredo Arribas as part of his low-intervention Vins Nus project in Priorat.
- Brisat is the traditional Catalan term for white wines fermented on grape skins.
- Ages for six months in horizontal stoneware egg amphorae rather than traditional wooden barrels.

## Food pairing

The combination of vibrant acidity and delicate skin-contact tannins allows this orange wine to bridge white and light red food pairings. Its subtle phenolic structure cuts through rich fats while phenolic spice and floral aromatics align seamlessly with saffron, roasted nuts, and savory tapas.

## Wine making process

Sourced from 30-year-old organically farmed vines on licorella slate and clay soils at 480 meters elevation. Whole-cluster grapes undergo pre-fermentative skin contact for 10 to 12 days before spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with native yeasts. After gentle pressing, fermentation finishes in 500-liter wooden vats. The wine ages for 6 months in horizontal white stoneware egg amphorae and is bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal added sulfur.