# Olo (2022)

- **Producer:** Émilie Mutombo
- **Colour:** orange
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Macabeu
- **Region:** Catalonia, Spain
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 11.0%
- **Average price:** €25
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** No
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 12–14 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** lemon, peach, herbaceous, orange, toast, dried apricot

## About this wine

Émilie Mutombo is a Belgian winemaker of Congolese heritage operating in Bonastre, Catalonia. After working at Partida Creus, she founded her micro-winery in 2020 inside a garage beneath her house. Her wines are crafted naturally with organic viticulture in tiny volumes (~8,000 bottles total per year) with zero added sulfites, featuring distinct abstract label art created by her brother Frédéric Mutombo.

## Interesting facts

- Émilie Mutombo trained at the famous Partida Creus before starting her micro-garage winery in Catalonia.
- The abstract label artworks are created by the winemaker's brother, Brussels artist Frédéric Mutombo.

## Food pairing

Skin-contact orange wines offer a fresh acid backbone combined with light phenolics, making them exceptional matches for savory vegetables, seafood, and cured meats.

## Wine making process

Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeast, short skin-contact maceration, aged for 10 months in stainless steel tanks, bottled with zero added sulfur, unfined and unfiltered.