# Touch of Light (2025)

- **Producer:** Niloufar Wines
- **Colour:** white
- **Type:** sparkling
- **Grapes:** Moscatel de Alejandría
- **Region:** Catalonia, Spain
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 11.0%
- **Average price:** €21
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** No
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 6–8 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** blossom, lemon, orange, peach, passion fruit, bread, biscuit

## About this wine

Niloufar Wines is led by Dutch natural winemaker Niloufar Sharifi Esfarani, a former sommelier from Rotterdam who honed her craft across Europe and South Africa. Based near the Montserrat mountains in Alt Penedès, she farms vineyard plots using organic, biodynamic, and regenerative practices to create expressive natural wines.

## Interesting facts

- Founded by a former Dutch sommelier who traveled Europe in a surf van named Bennie.
- Reinterprets aromatic Moscatel grapes into a dry, sparkling skin-contact wine.
- Crafted with zero added sulfites and bottled unfiltered on fine lees.

## Food pairing

The bright acidity and fine sparkling texture cut through rich seafood fats and complement tangy goat cheese, while the dry structure seamlessly balances raw fish and citrus-driven dishes without clashing.

## Wine making process

Crafted via the ancestral method (Pét-Nat), this wine undergoes five days of skin maceration before pressing. Spontaneous fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts. The wine is bottled during active fermentation to capture natural effervescence and ages on fine lees without filtration, fining, or added sulfites.