# Ratpenat (2021)

- **Producer:** Celler Credo
- **Colour:** white
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Macabeu
- **Region:** Catalonia, Spain
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 10.5%
- **Average price:** €25
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** Yes
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 8–10 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** pear, apple, fennel, peach, bread, smoke

## About this wine

Celler Credo is the organic and biodynamic still white wine project of the Recaredo family, based in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia in Catalonia's Penedès region. 'Ratpenat' translates to 'bat' in Catalan and forms part of the estate's Biodiversity Collection. The project arose from a 2013 partnership with the Granollers Natural Science Museum to research and conserve bat populations, which serve as natural biological pest controllers in the vineyard ecosystem.

## Interesting facts

- 'Ratpenat' translates to 'bat' in Catalan, highlighting a partnership to preserve local bats as natural vineyard insectivores.
- The wooden wine cases double as functional bat roosting boxes designed to be hung in vineyards.
- Sourced from 'La Riera Seca', featuring rare slate and quartz gravel soils in limestone-dominated Penedès.

## Food pairing

The high acidity and mineral salinity cut cleanly through rich textures like carpaccio and creamy vegetable soups, while complementing delicate white meats and fresh seafood.

## Wine making process

Sourced from 30-year-old bush-trained vines in the 'La Riera Seca' vineyard, planted on rare slate and quartz gravel soils. Harvested manually, the grapes undergo cold skin and stem contact for a few hours post-harvest. Fermentation occurs spontaneously in stainless steel tanks using indigenous yeasts. The wine ages for 1 month in used oak barrels followed by further aging in stainless steel tanks and bottle before release.